Scite's Citation Statements show you the actual sentence where a paper was cited and that changed how I evaluate sources

One specific feature post because I think the Citation Statements capability is more useful than people realize when they first hear the description.

When a paper is cited by another paper, the citation usually tells you that paper B references paper A. What it does not tell you is what paper B actually said about paper A. Did it confirm the finding? Qualify it? Challenge it? Cite it as background only? The citation count tells you a paper is influential. It tells you nothing about whether that influence is positive or contested.

Scite's Citation Statements provide the exact sentence from the citing paper where the original research is mentioned. Not just the classification as supporting or contrasting, but the verbatim context. You can read what subsequent researchers actually wrote about a paper's findings rather than inferring it from a label.

I use this when I am deciding how much weight to give a paper I am planning to cite. If the supporting citations are citing it as background context and the contrasting citations are actively arguing with its central claim, the classification tells me there is a debate but the actual statements tell me what the debate is about.

The Visualization Tools for citation mapping show how different papers and concepts connect over time which is useful for understanding the development of an argument across the literature.

The Scite Assistant chatbot answers research questions using only verified peer-reviewed sources which handles the "I want a quick answer with confidence it is sourced" use case that general AI assistants handle badly.