Litmaps
Discover related research with citation-graph mapping
Overview
Litmaps builds living citation maps that update over time — set a research interest, and the tool surfaces new papers in your area as they appear. Strong adoption in academic medicine and life sciences. Paid plans for individuals and institutions.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 19 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Litmaps in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Litmaps is a solid visual literature-discovery tool that maps citation networks to help you find seminal and adjacent papers, spot gaps, and monitor new publications via its weekly Monitor feature. It sits in the same niche as Connected Papers and ResearchRabbit, and its citation-graph navigation plus search filters make it genuinely useful for systematic reviews and seed-paper expansion.
It suits postgrads, academics, and analysts doing literature reviews who want breadth fast. Caveats: the free Basic plan is quite limited (small map and input caps), it relies on the coverage of underlying citation databases so very new or niche fields can be thin, and it is a discovery aid rather than a reader or writing tool. No meaningful public developer API.
Notable facts
- Litmaps was developed at the University of Otago in New Zealand, making it a Southern Hemisphere contribution to global academic research infrastructure.
- A single Litmaps session revealed to one researcher that they had been unaware of 40 papers directly relevant to their dissertation, saving months of remedial literature review.
- The visual time-axis can show a research field's evolution over 100 years — revealing which papers triggered paradigm shifts and which lines of research were abandoned.
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