Connected Papers

Connected Papers solves the moment every researcher knows: you found the one paper, and now you need the neighborhood — not more keyword hits, the actual prior art and the papers that cited it into a field. Drop in a DOI or title and you get a graph where distance is similarity, not citation count, which surfaces the survey you should have read first.

It is not a chatbot and it is not Semantic Scholar’s search. It is a map. Free use is capped; serious reviews want the multi-origin graphs on paid plans. Combined with ResearchRabbit or Litmaps it becomes a workflow; alone it is the 20-minute picture that stops you from citing the wrong lineage. For anyone writing a related-work section, it pays for itself in avoided misses.