ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit helps researchers discover relevant academic papers by building visual networks from seed papers. You add papers you already know, and the AI recommends related work — earlier foundational papers, later papers that cite your seeds, and papers that share similar themes or methodologies. The visualization shows how papers connect to each other, making it easy to trace research lineages and identify key works in a field. You can create multiple collections for different research threads and receive email alerts when new relevant papers are published. ResearchRabbit is completely free, which makes it one of the best value tools in academic research. It integrates with Zotero for reference management, so you can sync your existing library. For graduate students starting a literature review, it dramatically reduces the time spent discovering relevant papers. The main limitation is that it covers academic papers but not patents, preprints on all platforms, or industry reports.