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Introduction to ResearchRabbit

What is ResearchRabbit?
ResearchRabbit is an online tool that helps you discover research faster, stay organized, and build a deeper understanding of your field. Whether you’re starting a new project ...

How to get started with ResearchRabbit

Research can feel overwhelming. Thousands of papers, endless references, and the constant worry of missing something important. ResearchRabbit was built to help you find and organize all the literature you need for your review in a faster, smarter, and ...

How to cite ResearchRabbit in your paper or presentation

Whether you’re conducting a systematic review, preparing your dissertation, or exploring a new topic, more and more researchers are using ResearchRabbit to search for papers, explore related work, and understand how studies connect through citation networks....

Searching & discovery

How to search in ResearchRabbit

Here's how to search for papers using ResearchRabbit, whether starting from scratch or importing papers from an existing library....

How to explore authors

Exploring an author’s work is a powerful way to understand a research area more deeply and identify key contributors in your field. Instead of searching paper by paper, author exploration lets ...

The ResearchRabbit Database

The ResearchRabbit database has 270+ million research articles.    We use three data providers to ensure the best coverage possible...

What's behind ResearchRabbit's search algorithm?

ResearchRabbit's Search Algorithm  
When you start a search in ResearchRabbit, you always supply seed articles. These are used as a starting point for our algorithm, informing the two components of any ResearchRabbit search....

How do I search "Similar Work” in the new ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit helps you explore the literature by finding "Similar Work" to papers you already know. Here's how to discover Similar Work in the new ReseachRabbit.  Log into ResearchRabbitStart a new search: You need to select one or more papers to get started. You can start by...

How do I search "Later Work" in the new ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit helps you explore the literature by finding research relative to papers you already know. You can use the tool to look at research published later in time. Here's how to discover "Later Work" in the new ReseachRabbit...

How do I search "Earlier Work" in the new ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit helps you explore the literature from different perspectives, allowing you to drill down on specific papers. You can explore the references of specific papers (their "Earlier Work"), limit the results to those published earlier than the articles you're looking ...

How do I see citations and references in the new ResearchRabbit?

ResearchRabbit helps you explore the literature through many different paths. You can use ResearchRabbit to explore the references and citations of any paper, visualize their connections, and find relevant work. Here's how to view citations and/or references for any paper in ResearchRabbit...

Collections & Library management

Organizing your articles with Collections

Searching for papers can get messy very quickly. You jump between ideas, read abstracts, open lots of articles, and often change direction as you start to understand the topic better. That is a normal part of doing research...

How to share papers and collections

Research is increasingly about collaboration. Whether you’re working as part of a research lab, co-authoring a paper, or sharing papers with collaborators, it should be easy to move your work where it’s needed...

Using the Zotero Importer

Zotero is a popular Reference Manager that can help insert written references and organise your literature for a research paper. You're able to bring the papers you've saved to Zotero into ResearchRabbit through our ...

Using ResearchRabbit in your workflow

How to do a literature review with ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit helps you discover research, streamline your search and manage your entire literature review with ease. Here's how it helps...

Using ResearchRabbit alongside library databases

ResearchRabbit is designed to work traditional library resources, not replace them. Together, they help you discover more relevant research, understand how ideas connect, and build a stronger, more complete literature review...

About ResearchRabbit

How does ResearchRabbit work?

ResearchRabbit strives to be fully reliable and transparent when it comes to our search processes. This gives you the confidence to use our tool, and understand exactly how it works. For comprehensive reviews, systematic literature reviews, or other projects...

How ResearchRabbit uses AI

A quick overview of how ResearchRabbit supports discovery, including our approach to using AI...

Environmental impact and how we work

We take a practical approach to environmental responsibility that reflects how ResearchRabbit operates today. We are a small team of 9 people, so we try to stay realistic about the scale of our impact and focus on practical choices in how we work...

Data Responsibility: TLDR

Research data like articles and notes can be very sensitive, and it's fair to be scrutinising about which companies you trust to handle it. Our small team operates thanks to the income we receive from RR+ subscriptions...

ResearchRabbit Free Tier

Research is hard, and often doesn't pay well. We're committed to make sure a feature-complete tier of ResearchRabbit is available for free, forever.
What's in the Free Tier...

Using ResearchRabbit+

ResearchRabbit+

The core of ResearchRabbit is available for free, which thousands of researchers around the world use to improve tasks like citation chasing, note-taking, and visual citation mapping. Beyond the free tier...

Advanced Search with RR+

RR+ is built for deep dives. It adds powerful functionality to help your searches go even deeper faster. If you want to ensure a comprehensive search, to quickly hone in on potential research gaps and missing links, and to ensure total coverage for ...

RR+ Country Discounts

Access to research should never depend on income. That’s why ResearchRabbit started as a free tool, and why it will always stay free.​For those who want to use our premium tier, we offer parity pricing to ensure affordability worldwide...