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Litmaps

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Litmaps

Visual literature discovery and mapping

4.4
freemiumintermediateVerifiedSince 2021-06

About Litmaps

Litmaps helps researchers discover and visualize the academic literature landscape around any topic. It creates interactive citation network maps that show how papers are connected, making it easy to find seminal works and emerging research trends.

Built by a team of researchers and engineers, Litmaps uses citation graph analysis combined with AI recommendations to surface relevant papers.

Platforms
Web
Best For
researchersStudents
Categories
Research AI

Capabilities & Features

Free Tier
Customizable
Web Search
Collaboration

Not Available

API Access
No Signup Required
Open Source
Works Offline
Multimodal
Voice Input
Image Input
Image Output
Video Input
Video Output
Audio Output
File Upload
Code Execution
Plugins
Memory
White Label
Self-Hostable
Browser Extension

Ideal Use Cases

researchsummarization

Pricing

Free TierActive

3 maps per month, basic discovery

Paid Plan

Pro $10/mo

Get Started

Pros & Cons

Beautiful citation maps

Great for literature reviews

Seed-based discovery

Free tier is limited

Can be slow on large maps