Scite, founded in Brooklyn in 2018 and acquired by Research Solutions, Inc. in December 2023 for roughly $20.9 million, built its reputation on Smart Citations: rather than simply counting the total number of times a paper has been cited, Scite classifies each citation by intent, whether the citing paper supports, contradicts, or simply mentions the original claim.
That classification answers a genuinely different and more useful question than a raw citation count does: a heavily cited paper whose citations mostly contradict its findings looks substantially different under Scite's lens than under a basic citation-count metric, information relevant to judging how well a claim has actually held up in the literature since publication. The underlying index now covers more than a billion classified Smart Citations.
There's no permanent free plan, only a 7-day trial; paid plans start around $20 a month billed monthly, less if billed annually. For a researcher who wants to know not only that a paper is cited frequently, but whether the field agrees or disagrees with it, Scite's citation-classification approach addresses that specific evaluative question directly.
