AI Tool
Litmaps
Visual literature discovery and mapping
4.4
freemiumintermediateVerifiedSince 2021-06About 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
Pros & Cons
Beautiful citation maps
Great for literature reviews
Seed-based discovery
Free tier is limited
Can be slow on large maps