Scite
Scite is an AI-powered research platform that helps researchers discover, evaluate, and verify scientific literature. Its Smart Citations show whether later studies support, contradict, or merely mention a cited claim, while its Assistant grounds answers in full-text scholarly sources.
At a Glance
- Individual researchers, students, and academics
- Universities and research libraries
- Corporate R&D and evidence teams
- Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare organizations
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AI Research Citation Analysis
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Latest News
Citation Surfing with Scite MCP: added a citation-graph tool for exploring paper connections, shared references, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling.
See Where Your AI Tokens Are Going: Scite described how MCP grounding can reduce waste and keep research citations verified.
Cut Your AI Costs Without Sacrificing Quality: announced MCP positioning for grounding LLMs with accurate citations at lower cost.
Clinical Trials & Grants: Scite MCP expanded to 719,236 clinical trials and more than 3.5 million grants.
Products & Services
AI-assisted scholarly discovery and evaluation; analyzes citation statements and classifies them as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning, with citation context and section labels.
Research chatbot that answers questions from full-text scholarly literature and links claims to verifiable sources.
Upload a manuscript and inspect how each reference has been cited, including retractions, editorial notices, and contrasting findings.
Spaces for gathering papers, monitoring citations, and asking focused questions over a defined research set.
Market Position
Scite differentiates from conventional citation indexes and general-purpose AI research tools by analyzing citation statements in full text, classifying whether evidence supports or contradicts a cited claim, and linking AI answers to verifiable passages. Its publisher agreements and integration of articles, patents, trials, grants, and regulatory datasets position it as an evidence-verification layer across scholarly workflows rather than only a paper-search index.
Leadership
Founders
Josh Nicholson
PhD in cell biology from Virginia Tech; founded and led The Winnower, then served as Chief Research Officer and CEO at Authorea before Wiley acquired it. He was Scite co-founder and CEO and later became Research Solutions Chief Strategy Officer.
Sean Chandler Rife
PhD social psychologist and professor/associate professor at Murray State University; previously co-founded and was CTO of Verum Analytics. He was Scite co-founder and Chief Research Officer and later became Head of Academic Relations at Research Solutions.
Yuri Lazebnik
PhD cell biologist, professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, founder of Lerna Consulting, LLC, and Scite co-founder and Chief Science Officer.
Executive Team
Josh Nicholson, PhD
Chief Strategy Officer, Research Solutions; former Co-founder and CEO of Scite
Founded The Winnower and led Authorea before Wiley's acquisition; PhD in cell biology from Virginia Tech.
Sean Chandler Rife, PhD
Head of Academic Relations, Research Solutions; former Co-founder and Chief Research Officer of Scite
Professor/associate professor of psychology at Murray State University; previously co-founded Verum Analytics.
Founding Story
Scite was started to make research more reliable by showing the context and intent of citations rather than treating citation counts as proof of credibility. The founders' initial vision was a next-generation citation index that uses deep learning to identify whether later work supports, contrasts with, or mentions a claim.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Paid individual and team subscriptions, enterprise/institutional contracts, API access, higher-volume data feeds/licensing, and custom enterprise access. Research Solutions reported that Scite's subscription revenue was split between monthly and annual B2C and B2B subscriptions.
Pricing Tiers
Full platform access; 250 MCP credits/month, Smart Citation reports, collections up to 1,000 papers, citation alerts and dashboards.
Everything in Basic plus API access, $60 API credit (limited-time offer), 2,500 MCP credits/month, collections up to 10,000 papers, and patent/clinical-trial/grant datasets.
For organizations and universities; pooled usage, SSO/IP/domain/email access, collections up to 50,000 papers, regulatory/safety datasets, extended reports, and enhanced security/confidentiality.
Target Markets
- Individual researchers, students, and academics
- Universities and research libraries
- Corporate R&D and evidence teams
- Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare organizations
- Government agencies and research institutions
- Publishers, editors, and scholarly communication organizations
- Literature reviews and research discovery
- Fact-checking scientific claims and verifying references
- Manuscript writing, peer review, and editorial reference checking
- Monitoring papers, authors, journals, institutions, funders, and competitors
- Patent and freedom-to-operate research
- Clinical-trial, grant, regulatory, and evidence-landscape research
- Approximately 21,000 active subscribers at the time of the 2023 acquisition
- Novo Nordisk
- University of Kentucky
- West Point