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What is Scite

Scite

Scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Scite was founded by Josh Nicholson and Yuri Lazebnik and previously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 

Searching Features:

  • See and read each and every citation that was made to this paper by others.
  • Get aggregate information about the number of citations made, disaggregated by each classification type from our deep learning model.
  • Filter citations by additional attributes such as the section in the citing paper where the citation occurred, or whether the citing publication was a book, research paper, preprint, etc.
  • Search directly within the extracted text snippets to find relevant citations.

How does Scite Work

Scite processes full-text articles to build out its database of Smart Citations, which contain information about:

  • which papers are citing each other
  • the textual context of each citation and the location within the citing paper
  • a classification describing whether the citation is supporting, mentioning, or contrasting the cited work's claims

This source of data is used to build a variety of features. For example, you can find the scite report for a given paper and:

  • see and read each and every citation that was made to this paper by others
  • get aggregate information about the number of citations made, dis-aggregated by each classification type from our deep learning model
  • filter citations by additional attributes such as the section in the citing paper where the citation occurred, or whether the the citing publication was a book, research paper, preprint, etc.
  • search directly within the extracted text snippets to find relevant citations

You can find how Scite works in detail from the MIT Press Journals website