Litmaps
Interactive citation maps for literature discovery, monitoring, and collaboration.
About
Litmaps visualizes academic literature as interactive citation networks: seed a map with papers, discover related work through citation connections, and get alerts when new papers land in your area. Searches a 270M+ paper catalog (provider-claimed); integrates with Zotero (2-way sync on Pro), Mendeley, and EndNote.
Pricing: free (2 maps, 100 articles/map, 20 inputs); Pro $10/mo with up to 75% educational discount and country-based pricing; Team/Institution custom. Reviewers praise the interface and Zotero sync; maps get cluttered past ~500 articles.
What it can do
- Interactive citation-network visualization
- Seed-paper discovery and semantic search
- New-publication monitoring alerts
- Zotero 2-way sync (Pro)
- Team collaboration and sharing
Setup
- Sign up at litmaps.com (free tier).
- Create a map from seed papers (search or import from Zotero).
- Explore the citation network; refine with filters.
- Turn on Monitor alerts for new publications.
- Upgrade to Pro ($10/mo) for unlimited maps and Zotero sync.
Prerequisites
A web browser; Litmaps account (free tier available).
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Established, well-reviewed mapping tool with a genuinely useful free tier and Zotero sync, but closed SaaS and the catalog-size figure is provider-claimed. Mid-size adoption footprint. Metrics tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · established in lit-review niche; strong review coverage — provider-tier estimate
- · no release date — neutral maintenance score
- · manual review: free tier + $10 Pro verified; Zotero sync; 270M+ papers provider-claimed; license: closed SaaS
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.