scite

What scite does

Scite operates an AI-powered research platform built around a proprietary citation classification system called Smart Citations. The company's deep learning model analyzes more than 1.6 billion citation statements extracted from 280 million+ full-text scholarly articles and classifies each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning the cited paper, with the surrounding sentence shown in context. This classification layer sits beneath an integrated product suite that includes Scite Assistant (an AI research chatbot grounded in peer-reviewed literature), full-text Search, Reports (citation analytics), Collections (research monitoring across Zotero, Mendeley, or DOI lists), Reference Check (manuscript PDF evaluation), and a Developer API. The platform's content coverage is enabled by direct licensing agreements with 35+ publishers — including Wiley, SAGE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Springer Nature, AAAS, and the American Chemical Society — giving Scite access to paywalled material that competing AI tools generally cannot reach.

Scite's business model is a multi-stream SaaS platform. End users access the product via a self-service freemium trial at scite.ai and convert to monthly or annual subscriptions; enterprises and institutions procure organization-wide licenses through a direct sales motion ([email protected]); and developers consume the same citation and full-text data via a Developer API, MCP-compatible endpoints, and embedded connectors inside third-party AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT). Customer segments span individual academic researchers and PhD students, research-intensive universities and medical schools (Stanford, NYU Langone, Johns Hopkins, ETH Zurich, Purdue, McMaster, West Point), pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations (Novo Nordisk), and AI developers building custom research tools. The company is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), which provides public-company capital and operational infrastructure; the corporate entity (Scite, LLC) is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, with original operations in Brooklyn, New York.

Strategically, Scite has shifted from a standalone web application to a "headless" distribution model in 2026, embedding Smart Citations and the 280M+ article corpus directly inside Anthropic's Claude (April 2026) and OpenAI's ChatGPT via MCP. Recent product expansion has extended the platform's scope beyond articles to include 719K+ clinical trials, 3.5M+ grants, and 90M+ patent families. The company has received the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, the Vesalius Prize Runner Up, and the ISMTE People's Choice Award, and has secured NSF Phase 1 and NIH/NIDA SBIR grants supporting its core technology. Revenue, pricing, and headcount details are not publicly disclosed; the standalone employee count is reported at 1–10, though operational scope extends through the Research Solutions parent.

Name

scite

Legal name

Scite, LLC

Website

https://scite.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Scite is an AI-powered research platform that classifies scientific citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning across 1.6B+ citation statements and 280M+ full-text articles, serving academic researchers, universities, pharmaceutical organizations, and AI developers via SaaS, API, and embedded Claude/ChatGPT integrations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

STEM & Engineering Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scientific & Laboratory Reference (Chemistry, Biology, Physics; Methods & Protocols) (EDAGAGAG), Life Sciences (Biology, Ecology, Agriculture) Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAC)

Keywords

• Citation analysis software
• Scientific literature search
• AI research assistant
• Scholarly content platform
• Academic research verification

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Recurring subscription model for individual and institutional access to the Scite platform. Users can start a free trial and subscribe monthly or annually to access Smart Citations, Assistant, Search, Reports, and Collections features.
2. API Access: Programmatic access to Scite's data and capabilities for teams building their own tools. Provides periodic data dumps and custom data analysis services for enterprise customers.
3. Enterprise Licensing: Organization-wide licensing for academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and enterprises requiring institutional access, custom configurations, and dedicated support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Scite operates an AI-powered research platform that uses natural language processing and a proprietary deep learning classifier to analyze how scientific papers cite one another. Its Smart Citations classify each of 1.6B+ citation statements as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning, going beyond traditional citation counts. The platform includes Scite Assistant (AI research chatbot), Search (full-text discovery), Reports (citation analysis), Collections (research monitoring), Reference Check (manuscript evaluation), and a Developer API, all backed by 280M+ full-text articles from licensing agreements with 35+ publishers.

Product overview

Scite is an AI-powered research platform built on Smart Citations — a proprietary citation intelligence system that classifies each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning. The platform combines multiple integrated modules: Scite Assistant (AI research chatbot), Search (full-text discovery), Reports (citation analysis), Collections (research monitoring), Reference Check (manuscript evaluation), and a Developer API for programmatic access. Smart Citations serve as the foundation, with all other products built upon or integrating the 1.6B+ citation statement index and 280M+ full-text article database.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smart Citations The foundational citation intelligence capability of the Scite platform; Smart Citations classify each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning using a deep learning model that analyzes 1.6B+ citation statements with surrounding context extracted from full-text articles. Used by researchers to determine whether findings have been supported or contradicted by subsequent literature.
• Scite Assistant

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2,000,000 researchers, students, and industry experts use the platform worldwide
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Anthropic (Claude)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2026Scite Claude Connector integrates Scite's AI-powered research platform with Smart Citations and access to 250+ million scientific articles directly into Anthropic's Claude AI assistant. Enables researchers to verify whether claims are supported, contrasted, or mentioned by peer-reviewed literature without leaving their Claude workflow.
• WileycoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner with indexing agreement providing full-text article access for Scite's Smart Citations platform. Wiley is one of 35+ publishers in Scite's network, enabling Scite to access and index Wiley's scholarly content.
• SAGE PublicationscoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner with indexing agreement for full-text scholarly content access, part of Scite's publisher network spanning 35+ publishers.
• Royal Society of ChemistrycoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner providing indexing agreements for full-text content from Royal Society of Chemistry journals.
• Cambridge University PresscoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner with indexing agreement for Cambridge University Press scholarly content.
• IOP PublishingcoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner providing full-text content access through indexing agreements.
• ElseviercoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner for Smart Citations indexing, providing access to Elsevier's extensive journal portfolio.
• Springer NaturecoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner with indexing agreement for full-text scholarly content.
• FrontierscoreTechnology or IntegrationOpen access publisher partner providing content for Scite's Smart Citations platform.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)coreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner with indexing agreement for Science and AAAS journal content.
• American Chemical SocietycoreTechnology or IntegrationPublisher partner for chemistry literature indexing agreements.
• 35+ Additional PublisherscoreTechnology or IntegrationAdditional publisher partners include: American Academy of Neurology, American Medical Association, American Physiological Society, American Psychological Association, American Society for Microbiology, BMJ Publishing Group, Karger AG, PNAS, APS, Rockefeller University Press, SLACK, Spandidos Publications, SPIE, Thieme, TransTech, Wolters Kluwer Healthcare, and others.
• OpenAI (ChatGPT)coreTechnology or IntegrationExisting ChatGPT integration extending Scite's 'headless' SaaS strategy of embedding research infrastructure within existing AI tools. Followed by the Claude Connector expansion.
• ZoterocoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partnership with Zotero reference management software, allowing Scite functionality within users' existing citation management workflows.
• Purdue UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPurdue University acquired Scite.ai and uses the platform as one of its AI research tools for accelerating research and increasing supercomputing prominence. Purdue has adopted Scite for research support alongside Microsoft Copilot and Rohan.
• GoogleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with Google on climate-focused AI research as part of Purdue University's AI research initiatives.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Elicit: Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches and summarizes peer-reviewed literature using LLMs, targeting the same academic/researcher segment with literature review and citation analysis workflows.
• Consensus: Consensus is an AI search engine for scientific research that draws answers directly from peer-reviewed studies. Comparable to Scite Assistant in grounding LLM responses in scholarly literature for researchers and students.
• Semantic Scholar: Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine indexing 200M+ papers with citation context and AI-generated summaries. Overlaps directly with Scite's full-text search and citation intelligence features.
• Connected Papers: Connected Papers builds graph-based visualizations of academic papers related by similarity, serving the same researcher persona with discovery and literature mapping features.
• Litmaps: Litmaps visualizes citation networks and helps researchers discover and monitor literature, targeting the same academic workflow with citation chaining and alerting features.
• Scite (original/standalone): The anchor company itself is included only as a self-reference; in valuation work, the standalone Scite pre-RSSS-acquisition is a useful comparable for transaction precedents.
• Scholarcy: Scholarcy uses AI to summarize academic articles and extract key findings, serving researchers and students with literature triage and reference analysis workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Research Solutions: Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS) is the publicly traded parent of Scite and a broader research workflow platform serving academic and enterprise customers with article management and scientific content access.
• Perplexity: Perplexity is an AI answer engine with citation grounding across the web; while broader than Scite, its Pro Search features increasingly overlap with citation-backed research retrieval.

Emerging players

• Zotero: Zotero is a reference management tool with which Scite already integrates. It represents both a partner and adjacent workflow owner for citation management among academic researchers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/sciteai

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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