scite

Belmont Libraries are conducting a 1-year trial of scite to test its functionality and assess its potential for broader use on campus. During this trial, access is restricted to Faculty and Staff. If you choose to participate in this trial, please complete the survey linked at the bottom of this guide to provide your feedback.

Click here to access scite and set up your account.

To create an account:

1) Use the scite link to access the site

2) Hit the blue ‘Sign Up’ button in the top-right

3) Register using your Belmont email address

4) You will be automatically added to Belmont’s license once you verify your email address

scite is a citation database that indexes more than a million articles and has access to more than a billion citations.

To be indexed in scite, journals must be registered with Crossref or Datacite (two DOI registration agencies) and have functional DOIs and active ISSNs for indexing. scite has access to the full text of many of those articles from both open access sources and from publishers who have indexing agreements with them. scite is adding articles and citations each day, but not all publishers participate. scite also indexes other resource types with DOIs, such as preprints, government reports, etc. See details about scite coverage here. 

scite citations are divided by AI into supporting, mentioning, and contrasting citations (i.e., "smart" citations).

scite also has a ChatGPT-like generative AI tool that lets you ask questions in plain language and get answers with references. 

Features

• Generate brief overviews of topics and answers to questions using AI, but also showing which searches the AI ran and which articles they're referencing to generate the text
• Search titles and citation statements
• Find where in an article a reference was cited in supporting or contrasting ways, as evaluated by AI
• Perform a reference check on published and in-progress manuscripts for retractions and editorial concerns

• Citation Statements (sometimes known as citances or in-text citations) - sentences surrounding a citation or reference within a publication. For example, the following is a citation statement from Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty by Carlson et al (2011), citing Incorporating Data Literacy into Undergraduate Information Literacy Programs in the Social Sciences by Stephenson & Caravello (2007): "Stephenson and Caravello extol the importance of data and statistical literacies as components of information literacy in the social sciences, arguing that the ability to evaluate information essentially requires that one understand the data and statistics used in an information resource."
• scite Assistant - scite's ChatGPT-like generative AI tool that lets you ask questions in plain language and get answers with references. 
• Smart Citations - provide contextual information about cited articles, helping researchers understand whether the cited work supports or contradicts the current research.