CLUSTER ACADEMIC-PAPERS-RESEARCH · 60 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-08-13
Academic research and citation tools
This cluster comprises web apps, browser extensions, and research tools that help users find, manage, cite, and synthesize academic literature. Some focus on citation generation, others on literature review assistance, and a few on manuscript submission or tracking. The dated entry history is sparse: seven members appear between March 2025 and April 2026, with no clear trend. On traction, research-radar leads with 36 stars, followed by ManuscriptDock (9) and MentorOS (3).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 9 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 9 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01LitReviewKit15★14 days—hobbyWeb app for researchers that searches multiple scholarly databases, imports saved references, deduplicates and screens results, and exports review data.
- 02nodos-map11★10 daysliveWeb app that maps university theses by semantic similarity, letting users explore research topics and their relationships.
- 03research-radar36★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted app that collects, deduplicates, ranks, and lets users search and browse researchers, topics, and sources they follow.
- 04ManuscriptDock9★25 days—Web app that helps researchers format, review, and resubmit academic manuscripts, generating complete submission packages for chosen journals.
- 05paperpulse3★6 dayslivehobbySelf-hosted service that monitors academic paper sources, filters new papers by a researcher's interests, and emails a daily digest whose feedback refines future recommendations.
- 06CatalystLab1★1 moliveai-builtWeb platform that helps researchers brainstorm ideas and discover academic literature across multiple scholarly databases using specialized AI-assisted thinking tools.
- 07MentorOS5★1 mo—hobbyHuman-in-the-loop web app that guides academic researchers through literature, experiments, writing, figures, and review while keeping human oversight at every step.
- 08oplib0★19 dayslivehobbyWeb application that allows users to publish, organize, and discover scientific articles and original editorial content in an interdisciplinary collection.
- 09research-to-deck0★19 daysliveWeb app that turns a research topic into a cited presentation deck by searching and synthesizing academic papers.
- 10OnlyIdeasApp0★12 daysliveindieMobile app for reading research papers that preserves equations and figures, supports passage discussion, and generates translations and reading guides.
- 11paper-to-project-notes0★4 daysliveWeb app that converts research papers into mini-project notes, implementation plans, proposals, and viva Q&A from PDFs, pasted text, or title/DOI.
- 12TraceMind0★12 days—hobbyWeb app that investigates documents by retrieving evidence for hypotheses, generating citations, and letting users remove items to stress-test support.
- 13ai-web-research-summarizer0★14 days—hobbyWeb research tool that fetches public pages, ranks evidence, generates cited summaries, and answers questions from the sources.
- 14Resarch_Lens0★1 dayliveai-builtWeb application that helps users discover academic research papers through a guided research discovery flow.
- 15research-helper0★15 dayslivehand-codedhobbyResearch assistant that lets users search papers, save them to a personal library, take structured notes, compare papers side by side, and export citations in multiple formats.
- 16humanizer_app0★12 days—Web app that collects academic thesis documents and payments from customers, then forwards each submission to the vendor for editing and delivery.
- 17reviewfast0★2 daysliveWeb app that ranks research records for systematic-review screening by relevance and tells reviewers when enough records have been screened to find most relevant studies.
- 18graphrag-evidence-explorer0★9 days—hobbyWeb app for exploring evidence behind knowledge-graph relationships, correcting extracted passages, and comparing retrieval methods on the same documents.
- 19PaperBench0★4 days—Desktop and browser app for academic research and writing with literature search, citations, PDF reading, and track-changes editing.
- 20papr-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceKeyboard-first terminal application for academics to read, search, and manage research papers, offering efficient annotation and organization.
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