Is Inciteful still around? (2026)
Yes. Inciteful is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.
Held steady at $0/mo the whole tracked window (19 days).
Reachable 100% of 19 tracked days.
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What Inciteful is
What sets it apart Literature Connector links two papers through citations
Best for free network analysis and paper discovery · Pricing model Free and open access
Inciteful builds a citation network from one or more seed papers and ranks results with PageRank, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling to surface key papers, authors, and institutions. Its Literature Connector shows how two papers link through the wider literature. The tool is free and open access with no sign-up required.
Sources inciteful.xyz · help.inciteful.xyz · libguides.hkust.edu.hk
The fine print, checked
What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Inciteful's own pages, linked below.
Inciteful is 100% free to use with no paid tier. The site says its core tools (Paper Discovery and Literature Connector) are free and always will be, and it has no pricing page (that URL returns Page Not Found). You can start straight away by searching for a paper or importing a BibTeX file.
Inciteful homepage (inciteful.xyz redirect) · checked Aug 1, 2026
You can export your findings. Any results table that contains DOIs has an export button at the bottom that downloads the contents as a BibTeX file, which you can then import into Zotero, Mendeley, or another reference manager.
Inciteful Docs - Power Users · checked Aug 1, 2026
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