78
Stack Score
Best for
Graduate students, researchers, and academic librarians who need to evaluate citation quality and avoid retracted papers.
At a glance
- Pricing
- paidfrom $20/mo
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/19/2026
What we love
- ✓Supporting vs contrasting badge is genuinely useful
- ✓Retracted citation alerts catch real research hygiene issues
- ✓Browser extension overlay is fast and accurate
- ✓PDF annotation works on imported papers
Where it falls short
- −Pricing has climbed since acquisition by Research Solutions
- −Smart Citation accuracy varies by field
- −Free tier is very limited compared to early days
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20263 tiers
Basic
$20
monthly
- ✓Scite Assistant
- ✓Full-Text Search
- ✓Custom Dashboards
- ✓Paper Citation Reports and Citation Alerts
- ✓250 MCP credits per month
Pro
$50
monthly
- ✓Everything in Basic
- ✓Patents in Search and Assistant
- ✓MCP access to Patents, Grants, Clinical Trials
- ✓2,500 MCP credits per month
- ✓Priority research tooling
Organization
Custom
annual contract
- ✓Everything in Personal
- ✓Flexible access via domain, IP, or email
- ✓API and MCP access with tiered volume pricing
- ✓Additional datasets and advanced AI models
- ✓SAML/SSO, 24/7 priority support, dedicated CSM
Why we picked it
Different from a search engine — Scite tells you who's agreeing or disagreeing with whom.
Overview
Citation intelligence — see whether papers support, contrast, or mention a claim. Built for academia + medical research.
Key features
- ●Smart Citations — shows supporting vs contrasting evidence
- ●1.2 billion citation statements indexed
- ●Reference Check — audit your draft for retracted citations
- ●Custom dashboards for research topics
- ●PDF annotation that surfaces smart citations
- ●Browser extension for any journal page
- ●Search across 200M+ scientific publications
Best use cases
Literature review
Find papers where claims are contested vs widely supported before citing them yourself.
Manuscript hygiene check
Run your draft through Reference Check to catch retracted or contradicted citations.
Topic monitoring
Set a dashboard for a research area and get alerts when new contesting evidence appears.
Integrations
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