Scite Review: Citations That Argue Back

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Scite is literature search with a verdict. Smart Citations label later papers as supporting, mentioning, or contrasting a claim, then point at the sentence. The Assistant answers from a licensed full-text pile they put at 317 million articles and 1.6 billion citations, with publisher deals on top of OA. Free is MCP crumbs: 25 credits a month, no Assistant, no search. Basic is $20 a month or $144 a year ($12) for unlimited Assistant, full-text search, Smart Citation reports, alerts, Claude/ChatGPT connectors, 250 MCP credits, and collections of 1,000 papers. Pro is $50 a month or $480 a year ($40) for 2,500 MCP credits, 10,000-paper collections, patents, trials, grants, and the API. Team is Pro per seat. Enterprise is campus SSO. Classification is a model. Open the paper. Coverage is thicker in biomed than in a local humanities journal.

𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐇𝐒:
• Support / mention / contrast on the citation, not just a count
• Answers tied to a sentence you can open
• Full-text search past the abstract
• MCP into Claude and ChatGPT
• Zotero and an API on higher seats

𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑:
Grad students, PIs, and industry scientists who need to know if the key paper still stands.

𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒:
• 7-day trial on paid seats
• 35+ publisher agreements
• Reference check for retractions and fights
• Dashboards and citation alerts
• 2 million listed users

𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:
• Free does not include the Assistant
• Smart Citation labels can be wrong
• Humanities coverage is thinner
• Auto-renew complaints show up in reviews
• A grounded answer is still not a methods section

𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐓: 4.4/5 stars
Use Free only to wire MCP. Buy Basic for a thesis year. Take Pro when patents and an API are part of the job. Cite the PDF, not the chatbot.

𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: https://quasa.io/projects/scite