2026 Academic Resource Directory · 50 essential research websites

Navigate global academic resources with one clean directory

Academiker is a multilingual research navigation hub for Chinese and global users. Explore databases, open access platforms, SCI and journal metrics, AI research tools, data repositories, and academic communities.

50Curated resources
10Research categories
5Language entrances
Top Signals
1

Discovery stack

Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, BASE, CORE, Baidu Scholar, CiNii, RISS, and HAL cover multilingual research discovery.

2

Publishing intelligence

JCR, SCImago, LetPub, Crossref, ORCID, Zotero, and Unpaywall support journal selection, citations, and compliance.

3

AI literature workflows

Elicit, Consensus, scite, SciSpace, Connected Papers, ResearchRabbit, and Papers With Code accelerate review and discovery.

Academic Resource Directory

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Google Scholar

Academic Search

A broad scholarly search engine for articles, theses, books, preprints, and citations across disciplines.

scholar.google.com
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Semantic Scholar

Academic Search

An AI-powered paper discovery platform with TLDR summaries, citation context, and research feeds.

www.semanticscholar.org
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BASE

Academic Search

A major academic search engine aggregating open access repositories and scholarly resources.

www.base-search.net
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CORE

Academic Search

Aggregates open access research papers and repository content worldwide for full-text discovery.

core.ac.uk
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OpenAlex

Academic Search

An open scholarly knowledge graph covering works, authors, institutions, topics, and citations.

openalex.org
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RefSeek

Academic Search

An academic search engine for students and researchers across web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

www.refseek.com
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百度学术

Academic Search

A Chinese scholarly search portal useful for Chinese papers, journals, and citation discovery.

xueshu.baidu.com
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CiNii Research

Academic Search

A Japanese scholarly discovery service from NII for articles, research data, and academic records.

cir.nii.ac.jp
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RISS

Academic Search

Korea's Research Information Sharing Service for articles, theses, and library holdings.

www.riss.kr
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HAL

Academic Search

France's open science archive for papers, preprints, reports, and scholarly documents.

hal.science
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Scopus

Major Databases

A major abstract and citation database used for discovery, tracking, and research analytics.

www.scopus.com
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Web of Science

Major Databases

A classic citation index platform for journal discovery, citation analysis, and research evaluation.

www.webofscience.com
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PubMed

Major Databases

The core search platform for biomedical and life sciences literature, maintained by NCBI.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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PubMed Central

Major Databases

A free full-text archive for biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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ScienceDirect

Major Databases

Elsevier's journal and book platform across science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com
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SpringerLink

Major Databases

Springer Nature's platform for journals, books, and conference proceedings across disciplines.

link.springer.com
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Wiley Online Library

Major Databases

Wiley's platform for scholarly journals and books in science, medicine, engineering, and social sciences.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Taylor & Francis Online

Major Databases

Taylor & Francis journal platform with strong coverage in social sciences, humanities, medicine, and engineering.

www.tandfonline.com
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JSTOR

Major Databases

A high-value digital library for humanities, social sciences, arts, history, and classic journals.

www.jstor.org
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Project MUSE

Major Databases

A platform for humanities and social sciences journals and books, especially university press content.

muse.jhu.edu
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DOAJ

Open Access

A directory of open access journals for finding trusted OA journals and articles.

doaj.org
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arXiv

Open Access

One of the most important preprint servers for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, and more.

arxiv.org
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bioRxiv

Open Access

A life sciences preprint server for tracking emerging research before formal publication.

www.biorxiv.org
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medRxiv

Open Access

A preprint server for medical and health sciences research.

www.medrxiv.org
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SSRN

Open Access

A working paper and preprint platform widely used in social sciences, economics, law, and management.

www.ssrn.com
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OpenAIRE

Open Access

A European open science infrastructure linking publications, datasets, projects, and research outputs.

www.openaire.eu
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Zenodo

Open Access

An open repository backed by CERN for papers, datasets, software, and research materials.

zenodo.org
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OSF

Open Access

The Open Science Framework for project collaboration, preregistration, data, and materials sharing.

osf.io
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IEEE Xplore

Engineering & CS

A leading platform for electrical engineering, computing, communications, engineering papers, and standards.

ieeexplore.ieee.org
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ACM Digital Library

Engineering & CS

A core digital library for computer science, including ACM journals, conferences, and computing literature.

dl.acm.org
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DBLP

Engineering & CS

A bibliographic database for computer science authors, venues, journals, and publications.

dblp.org
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INSPIRE HEP

Engineering & CS

A literature, author, citation, and experiment database for high-energy physics.

inspirehep.net
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NASA ADS

Engineering & CS

A NASA-supported literature discovery system for astronomy and physics.

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
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Journal Citation Reports

Journal Metrics

An authoritative platform for journal impact factors, rankings, and citation metrics.

jcr.clarivate.com
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Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Journal Metrics

A free journal and country ranking portal based on Scopus data.

www.scimagojr.com
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LetPub

Journal Metrics

A Chinese journal lookup platform for impact factors, review times, and submission experiences.

www.letpub.com.cn
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中科院文献情报中心期刊分区表

Journal Metrics

A commonly used journal ranking lookup portal for Chinese research evaluation contexts.

www.fenqubiao.com
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Retraction Watch Database

Journal Metrics

A database for tracking retracted papers and research integrity issues.

retractiondatabase.org
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Zotero

Reference & Writing

A free, open-source reference manager with browser capture, citation styles, and group libraries.

www.zotero.org
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ORCID

Reference & Writing

A global researcher identifier system for connecting authors and research outputs.

orcid.org
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Crossref

Reference & Writing

DOI registration and metadata infrastructure for publication records and citation links.

www.crossref.org
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Unpaywall

Reference & Writing

A browser extension and data service for finding legal open access versions of papers.

unpaywall.org
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Overleaf

Reference & Writing

An online collaborative LaTeX editor for papers, CVs, and academic writing projects.

www.overleaf.com
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WorldCat

Data & Libraries

A global library catalog for books, articles, holdings, and nearby library access.

www.worldcat.org
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DataCite Commons

Data & Libraries

A discovery platform for DOI-linked research data, software, organizations, and outputs.

commons.datacite.org
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Figshare

Data & Libraries

A platform for sharing research data, figures, posters, preprints, and supplementary materials.

figshare.com
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Kaggle Datasets

Data & Libraries

A dataset platform for machine learning, data science, teaching, competitions, and reproducible experiments.

www.kaggle.com/datasets
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Google Dataset Search

Data & Libraries

A cross-domain dataset search tool for discovering public datasets by keyword.

datasetsearch.research.google.com
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Elicit

AI Research Tools

An AI research assistant for paper search, evidence summaries, and structured data extraction.

elicit.com
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Consensus

AI Research Tools

An academic evidence search tool for answering research questions with paper-backed evidence.

consensus.app
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scite

AI Research Tools

Uses smart citations to show whether papers are supported, contrasted, or mentioned by later work.

scite.ai
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SciSpace

AI Research Tools

A paper reading assistant with PDF Q&A, explanations, and related-paper discovery.

typeset.io
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Connected Papers

AI Research Tools

Visualizes related-paper graphs to help build literature maps and reading paths.

www.connectedpapers.com
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ResearchRabbit

AI Research Tools

A literature discovery and recommendation tool for tracking authors, topics, and related papers.

www.researchrabbit.ai
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ResearchGate

Academic Community

An academic networking platform for following authors, projects, publications, and research updates.

www.researchgate.net
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Academia.edu

Academic Community

A paper-sharing and academic networking platform for author profiles and informal discovery.

www.academia.edu
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How to use this directory

Start with discovery, verify journal quality, save references, then use AI tools to map literature and compare evidence. Screenshot previews are generated from each resource URL for quick recognition.