Find, check and summarize sources.Our top 3 picks, ranked. Start with number 1.
Research depends on finding the right papers and trusting your references. These plugins search academic papers and peer-reviewed science, and check that references are real and that notes reflect a paper faithfully. Verify any citation before you use it: checking sources is still your job, and these tools make it quicker.
Saves you time checking that references are real.
Research work you can stand behind: check that references are real, take faithful notes on a paper, compare papers, draft related work from your own sources…
Shows you how, in 4 steps
Saves you time finding academic papers.
Search academic papers via OpenAlex — find papers by keyword, look up details by DOI, with pagination and sorting.
Shows you how, in 4 steps
Saves you time searching peer-reviewed science.
Consensus MCP server for AI-powered search across peer-reviewed scientific research papers.
Shows you how, in 4 steps
Not ranked by us. Sorted by how many people installed them.
Reads, writes and maintains markdown so it works as an Obsidian vault and still renders on GitHub and in VS Code: a lint for broken and ambiguous links…
Back-of-the-envelope estimates with stated assumptions and honest ranges, plus a sanity check for numbers other people quote at you.
Skill-driven research workflow for Claude Code and Cowork: idea → literature → ingest → analysis → draft → peer-review → publication.
Translate academic PDFs into readable, searchable PDFs while preserving document structure and research meaning.
Convert academic PDF papers into polished, narrative-driven PowerPoint presentations using 13 specialized AI agents.
Deep academic paper analysis with bilingual (English/Chinese) output.
Sustained mathematical research with auditable claims, dependencies and reproducible experiments.
Scholar Gateway MCP server by Wiley for accessing academic research and publications.
Instinct Engine that scans recent sessions, journals, and decisions for recurring patterns and turns them into concrete captures (rules, concept notes…
Fetch Wikipedia articles and data.
Search, read, capture, organize, and collaboratively edit your Arkas knowledge library.
Search YouTube transcripts for timestamps, speaker appearances, sponsors and recommendations.
Build a shared Markdown knowledge base with local hybrid search and an optional evidence-linked workflow to capture task lessons, evaluate skill improvements…
Multi-perspective deep research that writes Wikipedia-style, fully-cited articles.
Search Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, and 100+ engines via SerpApi.
Research U.S. state legislation in Claude: search bills, read bill text, look up legislators, and trace roll-call and individual voting records.
Translate an arXiv paper, or any PDF/DOCX/EPUB book, into any language as a printable book.
Session journaling plugin — save, list, open, search, and delete session memories.
Web research plugin that thinks before it searches.
Summarize and transcribe from Claude with Shorty: summarize YouTube videos, web pages, articles, and documents, transcribe podcasts and recordings…
Search1API brings multi-engine search to AI agents, with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and specialized sources including GitHub, Reddit, X, arXiv…
Social media scraper for Claude: scrape public profiles, posts, comments, transcripts and ads from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X (Twitter)…
Findings on what compounds, supplements and nutrients do in the body: each with the strength of its evidence, the quoted sentence, the paper and a permalink.
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