Litmaps

Litmaps is literature review software. Its official site says it accelerates your entire literature review by helping you discover important papers faster and visualize them as dynamic citation maps. The site's copyright line names Litmap Limited, the same company named on ResearchRabbit.What problem it solves: finding the key papers on a topic and seeing how they relate is slow when you work from keyword lists. Litmaps finds articles by their connections, using citations and references, and lays them out visually.What you can do (from the official site): - Discover: search a catalogue of 270+ million papers, with results found by connection through citations and references. Pro adds advanced discovery tools, custom filters and Zotero sync. - Visualize: see your literature review from a bird's-eye view, annotate articles, and change how papers are mapped using different measures. The pricing page describes the map as a date versus citation graph. - Share: send maps to colleagues, students, advisors or clients; the paid Team plan offers team-wide collaboration. - Monitor: get automatic emails when new articles on your topic are published. Free gives a monthly summary; Pro gives daily or configurable alerts.Scale claims from the site: used by 900,000+ researchers, students and professionals across 150 countries. These figures come from the vendor.Who it suits: students, academics and professionals doing literature reviews, plus labs and institutions with team or institutional licences.Pricing (litmaps.com/pricing, prices in USD, checked 14 November 2026): Free with a monthly alert summary, basic search with up to 20 inputs, 100 articles and 1 Litmap, and no collaboration. Pro has unlimited inputs, articles and Litmaps, advanced discovery tools and daily or configurable alerts. Pro Education is $10 per month on annual billing ($120 per year) or $12.50 per month on monthly billing and requires an academic email address. Pro Commercial is $40 per month on annual billing ($480 per year) or $50 per month on monthly billing. Team adds team-wide collaboration at a price you get by contacting the company, and Enterprise is by sales. The Features page also advertises 75% off for students and academics with an Educational License, and discounts for classrooms, labs, institutions and certain countries.This page is based on the public Litmaps website. We have not tested the tool hands-on, so check the official site for current features, limits and terms, and verify papers and citations in the original sources.