{
  "slug": "connected-papers",
  "name": "Connected Papers",
  "aliases": [],
  "vendor": { "name": "Connected Papers", "slug": "connected-papers", "website": "https://www.connectedpapers.com" },
  "homepage_url": "https://www.connectedpapers.com/",
  "pricing_url": "https://www.connectedpapers.com/pricing",
  "product_type": "application",
  "product_status": "active",
  "summary": "Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists",
  "description": "Connected Papers is a web application for exploring a research field visually. Given one or more seed papers it generates a graph in which nodes are related papers and proximity reflects similarity, and it lists \"prior works\" that the cluster commonly cites and \"derivative works\" that cite the cluster. Multi-origin graphs, saved papers and graph history are included in every plan.\n\nThe service is run by a small independent team and is sold as a freemium product: the free tier includes all features with a monthly cap on new graphs, while Academic and Business plans (individual or group seats, billed quarterly or annually) remove the cap; an Academic Library plan offers campus-wide access with SSO or IP authentication, and a scholarship program exists for researchers who cannot pay.\n\nIt is a discovery aid rather than a reference manager: graphs are limited to what the underlying bibliographic corpus covers, there is no public API, and exports are per-paper rather than bulk.",
  "capabilities": ["Similarity graphs around one or several seed papers", "Prior-works and derivative-works lists", "Multi-origin graphs and graph history", "Saved papers across sessions", "Group and campus plans with SSO/IP access"],
  "workflows": ["Mapping a new field from a handful of known papers", "Finding foundational references missing from a draft"],
  "advantages": ["Fast visual overview of a topic", "Free tier includes all features"],
  "limitations": ["Monthly graph cap on the free plan", "No public API or bulk export", "Dependent on an external bibliographic corpus"],
  "prerequisites": ["Web browser; account for saving graphs"],
  "audiences": ["Graduate students starting a literature review", "Researchers entering an adjacent field"],
  "alternatives": ["researchrabbit", "semantic-scholar", "openalex", "scite"],
  "comparison_notes": "ResearchRabbit offers comparable network exploration with a permanently free tier and collection-based alerts; Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex provide the raw graph data via APIs for users who prefer to build their own views.",
  "categories": [{ "slug": "academic-discovery", "primary": true }],
  "tags": ["citations", "visualization", "bibliography"],
  "use_cases": ["write-papers", "manage-references"],
  "operating_systems": ["web"],
  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],
  "interfaces": ["web"],
  "deployment_models": ["saas"],
  "integrations": ["Semantic Scholar (paper links)", "BibTeX export"],
  "data_formats": ["BibTeX"],
  "languages": [],
  "source_model": "proprietary",
  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "academic"],
  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",
  "self_hostable": false,
  "sources": [
    { "url": "https://www.connectedpapers.com/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },
    { "url": "https://www.connectedpapers.com/pricing", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "Connected Papers pricing", "supports": ["pricing_model", "capabilities", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "uncertainty_note": "The about page could not be rendered by automated fetchers, so the description of the similarity method and data source is deliberately limited.",
  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",
  "depth": "standard",
  "editorial_status": "reviewed",
  "visibility": "public",
  "featured": false,
  "author": "batch-E"
}