Ways to use the Scite API
Use Scite’s search, publication metadata, and Smart Citation data as building blocks in products and data pipelines.Power literature search
Search publication metadata and full-text citation statements with Boolean queries and 25+ filters to find papers by both content and citation context.
Make AI evidence-aware
Use Smart Citation classifications and citation context as retrieval or ranking signals, so agents can show how later research has evaluated each source.
Add Smart Citation signals
Enrich DOIs with supporting, contradicting, and mentioning tallies. Build a custom interface with the API or embed the Scite Badge.
Enrich scholarly data at scale
Resolve up to 500 DOIs per request, then combine publication metadata, author data, retraction status, and citation signals in products and data pipelines.
Why use the Scite API?
Most scholarly data APIs provide paper metadata and citation counts. Scite lets you search across the full text of research and use Smart Citations to see how later studies support, challenge, or build on a paper’s claims- See citation context. Read the text surrounding a citation, not just the citation count.
- Understand how a paper is cited. Smart Citations identify whether later research supports, contrasts, or simply mentions a work.
- Search across the conversation. Find papers based on how researchers discuss and use them in the literature.
- Build better AI outputs. Give AI systems evidence that includes both the source and how it has been evaluated by subsequent research.
- Stay current. New publications and citation signals are processed daily.
Start in minutes
Try it without an API key
Look up any paper and see whether later research supports, contradicts, or simply mentions it. These endpoints are public. Make your first request →
Get an API key
A Pro account unlocks the full API including Search, Citation Graph, Collections, and more. Create your API key →
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