Cornell University Library is offering a 2-month trial of SCITE.AI. Like Web Of Science and Scopus, Scite is a database of scientific literature. A novel feature of Scite is that, for a given paper, Scite uses AI to automatically classify citations to the paper as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning: a kind of “report card”. For all citing papers it shows a snippet of text where the cited paper was mentioned.

This feature can save time when reviewing literature and performing critical analysis of publications. Other features include creating custom dashboards, visualizing citation diagrams, saving searches, and setting notifications. For some of these features to work, setting up a Scite account is required.

Scite seems to be under continuous development, and their team reviews user inputs and corrects inaccurate information. In our initial exploration, CUL librarians noticed several instances where citations were incorrect (wrong author information, etc.), misclassified, or without citation snippets. In general publications lacking a DOI (most pre-1998 publications) are not included by Scite.

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