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Find the research.
See the bigger picture.

Discover papers, build your literature collection, and explore its connections with bibliometric analysis and AI-assisted interpretation.

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SciMaps project Sources screen with a research collection and controls for selecting papers to analyze
Your literature, organized in one project.Actual SciMaps screen · sample data

From individual papers to
a connected research workflow.

Discover. Organize. Understand.

A place to bring it together

Follow your question.
Build your perspective.

Move from a topic to a collection you can examine. Keep the papers and the context behind your analysis close at hand.

  1. 01

    Find your starting point.

    Search for publications and researchers. Explore the results that matter to your question.

    Discover research
  2. 02

    Make it your collection.

    Gather papers in a project, import by DOI, and choose the sources for your analysis.

    Explore projects
  3. 03

    Look at the connections.

    Review trends and bibliometric relationships within the papers you selected.

    Find an analysis tool

From analysis to understanding

Understand your results with AI assistance.

Interpret supported bibliometric analyses, explore connections in your collection, and consider possible directions for further research.

01Interpret your analysisOpen AI Insights alongside supported analyses to explore findings and connections. 02Explore possible research directionsSee why a suggested research direction may be worth exploring, with AI-generated context for your selected papers. 03Bring insights into your reportsAdd Analysis Insights to supported research reports, alongside the results you review.

AI features depend on service availability. Review generated interpretations against your selected sources and analysis.

Connect your AI assistant · MCP

Bring your research context
to your AI assistant.

Connect a compatible assistant through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to explore your SciMaps literature projects, retrieve bibliometric results, and request network visualizations.

Read the MCP setup guide on GitHub

Research Context MCP provides read-only access to projects you own using a dedicated agent token. It works with research data already stored in SciMaps and does not modify your projects or fetch additional records.

01 / Research discovery

A good question
deserves a
better starting point.

Find publications and the people behind them. Search across research records, inspect the details, and decide what belongs in your work.

Explore research discovery
SciMaps research search showing publication and researcher results
Research search · sample data

02 / Literature analysis

Different questions.
More ways to explore.

Examine publication trends, collaboration, and citation relationships. Choose the method that fits your question and understand what its results can tell you.

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Actual SciMaps Keyword Co-occurrence graph showing research-term nodes and connections from seven sample papers
Keyword Co-occurrence · actual app, seven sample papersExplore keyword networks
01Co-authorshipExplore collaboration through shared publications. 02Keyword Co-occurrenceWhich terms appear together in your selected sources? 03Co-citationWhich references are cited together by your selected sources?

More ways to analyze your collection: Trends, Descriptives, Country Production, Bibliographic Coupling, Direct Citation to follow citation links and Thematic Map to compare term clusters by centrality and density.

Analysis reflects your selected sources and the metadata available for them. Relationships describe the collection; they do not establish research quality or causation.

SciMaps researcher profile showing research identity and affiliation
Researcher profile · sample data

03 / Research identity

Science has
people behind it.

Put publications in context with researcher profiles and institutional information. Explore the people and organizations connected to the work.

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A little more context

Good research starts
with good questions.

A few things to know before you begin.

What can I do with SciMaps?

Discover research, organize papers in projects, examine selected-source trends and bibliometric relationships, interpret supported analyses with AI assistance, and explore researcher profiles. The tools directory explains each workflow, its inputs, and its limits.

Can I connect my own AI assistant to SciMaps?

Yes. Research Context MCP lets compatible assistants read your owned projects, retrieve supported analyses, and explicitly request SVG network visualizations. It uses a dedicated agent token and read-only access to data already stored in SciMaps. This connection is separate from built-in AI Insights: your external assistant uses the research context returned by SciMaps. The MCP setup guide on GitHub explains configuration, supported tools, and limits.

How does SciMaps use AI?

The AI Insights tab helps interpret Descriptives, Co-authorship, Keyword Co-occurrence, Co-citation, Bibliographic Coupling, and Direct Citation analyses. Selected Paper Insights can also provide optional AI context through Show rationale, and supported reports can include an Analysis Insights section. Availability depends on configured services. Review generated text against the underlying sources and computed results; suggested connections and research directions are not verified discoveries.

Where does the research data come from?

SciMaps searches locally stored research records and uses OpenAlex to find or enrich papers, researchers, institutions and journals when needed. Some records have incomplete author, reference, keyword or affiliation data. Check source details and the scope of each result when interpreting an analysis.

Does an analysis describe all research in a field?

No. A project analysis describes the sources you select and the metadata available for those sources. Selection, missing records, and method settings affect the result. The tool pages explain what each method measures and where interpretation requires care.

How do I get access?

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Learn the methods

From a literature collection to a useful research map

Choose a bibliometric method, follow a worked example and review its limits. For individual researchers and institutional teams analyzing a defined selected collection.

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Your next research question starts here

Bring your research
into perspective.

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