Web tools for researchers
Five tools run in your browser without an account: each IP address gets 5 free runs a day, counted across all five. The graphical abstract maker needs an account and uses credits.
- Free · no sign-up
Free citation checker
Paste a reference list. Every entry is checked against Crossref and OpenAlex: references that do not exist, wrong years or DOIs, and retracted papers are flagged.
- Free · no sign-up
Free retraction checker
Paste DOIs or a reference list and see which papers have a retraction, a correction or an expression of concern.
- Free · no sign-up
NIH RePORTER search by topic
Search NIH-funded projects by topic in plain words, with investigators, institutions and award amounts.
- Free · no sign-up
Free journal checker
Look up a journal by name or ISSN: publisher, open-access status, DOAJ listing, APC and h-index.
- Free · no sign-up
Free dataset finder
Search research datasets in Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Hugging Face and DataCite in one go.
- Account · uses credits
AI graphical abstract maker
Paste your abstract and an image model draws a one-panel graphical abstract from it.
The same tools, inside Claude or ChatGPT
Connect ScholarMuse once and your agent can call these tools during a conversation. Calls from an agent need an account and use credits.