Scite
AI research assistant that shows how scientific papers have been cited — supportive, contrasting, or mentioning.
Overview
Scite is a research intelligence platform that goes beyond traditional citation counting. For any academic paper, Scite shows not just how many times it has been cited, but whether each citing paper supports, contradicts, or merely mentions the findings — a distinction that fundamental changes how researchers evaluate the strength of evidence behind a claim.
This 'Smart Citation' system addresses a major problem in academic research: citation counts alone do not indicate reliability. A paper with 500 citations might have been cited 100 times as a cautionary example of poor methodology. Scite's classification makes the quality of citations visible, allowing researchers to identify papers with strong supportive evidence versus those that have been frequently challenged.
Scite Assistant, the conversational AI feature, allows researchers to ask questions and receive answers grounded in cited scientific literature, with each claim backed by supporting or contrasting evidence from real papers. The platform indexes over 1.2 billion citation statements and is used by 15,000+ institutions. In Singapore and ASEAN, it is used by university libraries to provide researchers with credible AI-assisted literature tools.
Pricing
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Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Scite 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).
Scite's distinctive value is Smart Citations: instead of just counting citations it classifies whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, giving researchers a fast read on how well findings have held up. That citation-context layer is genuinely useful for evaluating evidence and spotting disputed results, and its Assistant adds cited Q&A.
It is a specialized evidence-evaluation tool rather than a primary search engine, and full features are subscription-gated. Excellent as a credibility-checking companion alongside a discovery tool; not a standalone literature search. English-first, global, usable from ASEAN.
Notable facts
- Scite has classified over 1.2 billion citation statements as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning — a dataset that took years to create using a combination of AI and human review.
- A study using Scite found that up to 30% of citations in some fields refer to papers whose findings the citing author actually disagrees with — invisible to traditional citation metrics.
- The platform is used by 7 of the top 10 research universities in the world to help their researchers evaluate evidence quality rather than just citation volume.
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