Scite capabilities

Scite Assistant can be taught to read a user's own uploaded documents, letting it answer questions and generate summaries grounded in files the researcher supplies rather than only in Scite's indexed literature database.

A free browser extension that surfaces Smart Citation context on scholarly papers as you browse the web, including citation badges on discovery sites, and lets you ask the Scite Assistant from any page.

User-built collections of papers (also surfaced as Custom Dashboards) that track how citations to those papers accumulate over time and alert you to new supporting or contrasting citations and to retractions. Collection size limits depend on plan: 1,000 papers on Basic, 10,000 papers on Pro and above.

A scholarly search that matches against the text inside papers and against extracted citation statements, not just titles, abstracts, and keywords, surfacing findings, methods, and claims that never appear in an abstract.

Aggregate citation-intelligence profiles for journals, organizations/institutions, and funders, built from Smart Citations, that benchmark how a journal, institution, or funder's research has been supported, mentioned, or contrasted across the literature.

A per-paper report giving a quantitative and qualitative view of every citation a paper has received, so you can quickly judge whether a study's findings have held up over time.

Scite is sold as a paid subscription (no permanent free tier) with a 7-day free trial. As of mid-2026 third-party trackers show the line-up restructured to Personal for individual researchers, Organization for companies/universities (custom-quoted), and Developer for API/MCP integrations (custom-quoted, credit-based), replacing the earlier Basic/Pro/Team/Enterprise structure.

Upload a manuscript PDF and get a report on how every reference it cites has itself been cited by others, flagging any references that have been retracted, received editorial notices, or accumulated many contrasting findings, before the manuscript is published.

A programmatic API that gives teams and platforms direct access to Scite's citation data so they can build custom integrations with scientific-literature and Smart Citation data.

An AI research assistant that answers natural-language research questions with responses grounded in peer-reviewed literature, where every claim links back to the specific source it came from rather than being generated from the open internet.

A free, embeddable badge that displays a paper's Smart Citation tallies (supporting, mentioning, contrasting) on an external website, such as a journal or publisher page.

A Model Context Protocol server that connects ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible assistant to Scite's Smart Citations and full-text scientific literature, so an external AI tool can search papers, ground its answers in real sources, and verify claims against the literature.

Scite's foundational feature: instead of a raw citation count, it classifies each citation to a paper as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning, and shows the surrounding sentence from the citing paper so you can see how a finding has actually been used by later research.

A plugin that brings Scite's Smart Citations into the Zotero reference manager, so you can see supporting/contrasting/mentioning citation context for papers in your library without leaving Zotero.