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AI tools for General research

Papers, references, grants, datasets, statistics and figures.

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Capabilities in General research

Scientific figure maker

Scientific figure maker

All disciplines · Best-in-class figure model

Graphical abstract maker

Graphical abstract maker

All disciplines · Best-in-class figure model

Verify references

Verify references

All disciplines · Crossref, OpenAlex

Retraction checker

Retraction checker

All disciplines · Retraction Watch, Crossref

Search papers

Search papers

All disciplines · OpenAlex, PubMed / Europe PMC, arXiv +5

Journal checker

Journal checker

All disciplines · OpenAlex, DOAJ

Find funded grants

Find funded grants

All disciplines · NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards, UKRI Gateway to Research

Find datasets

Find datasets

All disciplines · DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad +2

Example requests

Scientific figure maker

You say to your agent

Make a graphical abstract for my paper: TGF-β drives fibroblast activation, which stiffens the matrix and recruits macrophages. Clean white background, Nature style.

A finished figure your agent can drop into a paper or slide

Graphical abstract maker

You say to your agent

Read my abstract and make a Cell-style graphical abstract with three panels.

A landscape (16:9) graphical abstract as an image file

Verify references

You say to your agent

Check every reference in my draft and flag anything that doesn’t exist or has wrong details.

Verified / not found / corrected for each entry

Why an agent, not another app?

You already write and think with Claude or ChatGPT. There is no other app to switch to: you add academic data tools to the agent you have.

Over MCP (Model Context Protocol) the agent queries academic databases directly, and the records it gets back carry their source and licence, so you can check them.

Frequently asked questions

From the official databases named on each capability. Every record comes back with its source, licence and attribution line, so you can check it and cite it.

Add ScholarMuse to an agent that supports MCP, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor, and approve the connection in your browser. The connect page has the steps for each agent.

Every call your agent makes uses credits, and a call is charged only when it succeeds. There are no subscriptions. A new account starts with a one-time gift of 50 credits. The 6 web tools under /tools are free without an account, up to 5 runs a day.

Requests are used only to answer you. We do not train models on them.

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