Research Rabbit allows you to visualize the network of connections between papers and citations in scholarly literature. Like many AI research tools, you can type in natural language questions, but Research Rabbit prefers to start with a DOI or paper title. It is particularly useful for visualizing citations between papers You can use features such as a timeline function to show when the papers emerged over time, or click through visualizations to find interconnections between papers. Additional features include:
- Explore similar work, references, and citations of a given paper
- Explore other work by the same authors, or connected authors
- Add papers to collections
- Import papers from a Zotero library and export to Zotero.
Best uses for Research Rabbit
- Citation research, i.e. looking into citations and reference connecting work
- Looking at authors, published work, and collaborators and mapping out publication totals and citations of those authors
- It can be used to find papers on a topic based on keywords, but it is designed to start with a title or DOI
- Unlikely to give you misinformation or disinformation because of how the tool is designed
- Better at citation analysis than Google Scholar because of the visualizations