学术研究工具地图A map of academic research tools

学术工具不是「一个更聪明的搜索框」，而是四件不同的事：找论文、读论文、查引用态度、做综述。 先定你要做哪件事，再选工具；本节不排名、不报价格。

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Academic tools are not "a smarter search box"; they serve four different jobs: find papers, read papers, check citation stance, build a review. Decide which job you have first, then pick the tool. This guide ranks nothing and quotes no prices.

Academic tools are not "a smarter search box"; they serve four different jobs: find papers, read papers, check citation stance, build a review. Decide which job you have first, then pick the tool. This guide ranks nothing and quotes no prices.

• Semantic Scholar：提供 Academic Graph API，可查作者、论文、引用与参考文献，并有 Recommendations API；适合做程序化检索与引文网络。
• Google Scholar：覆盖面广，但无官方 API，批量抓取受条款限制。
• arXiv：预印本主库，按分类与日期浏览最直接；未经同行评审的版本要单独标注。

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- Semantic Scholar: offers the Academic Graph API for authors, papers, citations and references, plus a Recommendations API; suited to programmatic search and citation networks. - Google Scholar: broad coverage, but no official API; bulk scraping is limited by its terms. - arXiv: the main preprint repository, easiest to browse by category and date; mark non-peer-reviewed versions explicitly.

• Semantic Scholar: offers the Academic Graph API for authors, papers, citations and references, plus a Recommendations API; suited to programmatic search and citation networks.
• Google Scholar: broad coverage, but no official API; bulk scraping is limited by its terms.
• arXiv: the main preprint repository, easiest to browse by category and date; mark non-peer-reviewed versions explicitly.

• SciSpace：面向论文的问答、解释与写作辅助，提供 PDF 对话与引用管理；适合逐篇精读与写作。
• Elicit：把研究问题拆成检索与数据抽取表格，适合做文献综述的初筛。
• 通用聊天助手：上传 PDF 也能读，但引用与页码常错；关键句要回原文核对。

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- SciSpace: paper-oriented Q&A, explanation and writing help with PDF chat and reference management; suited to close reading and writing. - Elicit: turns a research question into search plus extraction tables, suited to first-pass literature reviews. - General chat assistants: can read uploaded PDFs, but citations and page numbers are often wrong; verify key sentences against the original.

• SciSpace: paper-oriented Q&A, explanation and writing help with PDF chat and reference management; suited to close reading and writing.
• Elicit: turns a research question into search plus extraction tables, suited to first-pass literature reviews.
• General chat assistants: can read uploaded PDFs, but citations and page numbers are often wrong; verify key sentences against the original.

Scite 的 Smart Citations 把引用分成支持 / 反对 / 仅提及，用来判断一篇论文是被验证还是被质疑。 它不能替代你读原文：分类由模型与规则生成，边界情况仍要人工核对。

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Scite's Smart Citations classify citations as supporting / contrasting / mentioning, which helps tell whether a paper has been replicated or challenged. It cannot replace reading the paper: classifications come from models and rules, and edge cases still need human checks.

Scite's Smart Citations classify citations as supporting / contrasting / mentioning, which helps tell whether a paper has been replicated or challenged. It cannot replace reading the paper: classifications come from models and rules, and edge cases still need human checks.

• Connected Papers：按引文关系生成论文图谱，适合找一篇种子论文的上下游。
• Elicit：把多篇论文的样本、方法、结论抽成表，适合系统综述的初筛。
• 人工步骤不能省：去重、纳入/排除标准、质量评估与冲突处理仍要人做。

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- Connected Papers: builds a citation graph around a seed paper, useful for finding upstream and downstream work. - Elicit: extracts samples, methods and conclusions across papers into tables, useful for first-pass systematic reviews. - Human steps remain: deduplication, inclusion/exclusion criteria, quality appraisal and conflict handling are still yours.

• Connected Papers: builds a citation graph around a seed paper, useful for finding upstream and downstream work.
• Elicit: extracts samples, methods and conclusions across papers into tables, useful for first-pass systematic reviews.
• Human steps remain: deduplication, inclusion/exclusion criteria, quality appraisal and conflict handling are still yours.

• 把 AI 摘要当原文：摘要会漏掉限制条件与反例，引用前回原文。
• 把引用次数当质量：高引用也可能是争议或错误论文；看引用态度与复现。
• 把预印本当同行评审：arXiv 版本要标注，正式发表版可能已修改。
• 忽略数据库覆盖：不同工具覆盖的期刊、专利与会议不同，综述要说明检索范围。

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- Mistaking an AI summary for the paper: summaries drop limitations and counterexamples; go back to the source before citing. - Mistaking citation count for quality: highly cited papers can be contested or wrong; check citation stance and replication. - Mistaking a preprint for peer review: mark arXiv versions; the published version may have changed. - Ignoring database coverage: tools cover different journals, patents and conferences; state your search scope in a review.

• Mistaking an AI summary for the paper: summaries drop limitations and counterexamples; go back to the source before citing.
• Mistaking citation count for quality: highly cited papers can be contested or wrong; check citation stance and replication.
• Mistaking a preprint for peer review: mark arXiv versions; the published version may have changed.
• Ignoring database coverage: tools cover different journals, patents and conferences; state your search scope in a review.