scite

scite is a web-based platform and company that provides citation analytics for scientific literature. It aggregates scholarly documents from publishers, repositories, and other sources and tracks how they are cited across the literature. The service aims to help researchers evaluate sources beyond simple citation counts by offering context about how a work is cited.

A key feature of scite is citation context. When viewing a paper on scite, users can see the exact sentences from papers that cite the work, along with classifications such as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning. This contextual information is designed to reveal how a cited work is being used in subsequent research, rather than relying on raw citation tallies alone.

In addition to context, scite provides metrics intended to summarize influence. The platform offers sciteScore, a composite indicator that aggregates citation data to indicate impact, as well as other metrics for journals and individual articles. These metrics are presented to aid discovery, comparison, and evaluation of scholarly works.

scite supports discovery and workflow integration through search tools and various integrations. Researchers can use a browser extension and an API to incorporate scite data into their reading, writing, and reference-management workflows. The system also emphasizes transparency by documenting data sources and methods and by making citation-context data accessible.

Limitations of scite include coverage gaps due to metadata availability and indexing scope, which can affect results for some fields or publications. As with any metric-based resource, users are advised to consider scite alongside other sources and to review citation contexts directly when possible.