Connected Papers Nonprofit Discount & Pricing

Connected Papers is a free visual research tool that helps academics, researchers, and nonprofit professionals discover relevant scholarly literature by creating interactive similarity graphs from any academic paper. Unlike traditional keyword searches that often miss important related work, Connected Papers uses advanced bibliometric algorithms—including co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling—to map the 25-50 most similar papers based on how they cite and are cited by other research, revealing connections that would take hours of manual searching to uncover. Each graph visualizes papers as nodes with connections showing relationships, colors indicating publication dates, and sizes representing citation counts, making it easy to identify foundational papers, recent developments, derivative works, and emerging research trends at a glance.

For nonprofits and mission-driven organizations conducting research—whether for grant proposals, program evaluations, policy advocacy, literature reviews, or evidence-based practice—Connected Papers dramatically accelerates the discovery process by instantly mapping the scholarly landscape around any topic. Instead of manually following reference lists and citation chains, you can upload a seed paper or enter a DOI and immediately see the most relevant studies in your field, identify key authors and research clusters, track how ideas have evolved over time, and find both seminal foundational works and cutting-edge recent publications. The free plan provides 5 graphs per month with access to the full Semantic Scholar corpus of 200+ million papers, while the Academic plan ($3/month annual) offers unlimited graphs, multi-origin graphs that combine multiple seed papers, saved papers for building a personal research library, and full graph history to revisit and share previous searches—making it an essential tool for any organization that needs to stay current with research, build evidence-based programs, or conduct comprehensive literature reviews on nonprofit budgets.