Top Visited AI Research Papers AI Tools in Aug 2026

Ranked by estimated monthly website traffic · August 2026

Top 18 Total

111.9M

↓ 9.6% vs prev

Biggest Mover

Semantic Scholar
+11.2% MoM

New Entries

1

Resea AI

Dropped Out

8

Paperguide, Sourcely, Gatsbi AI, ScienceOS

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Tool

Monthly visits

MoM %

Global rank

6mo trend

Category

1

95.2M

visits/mo

▼ 8.2%

#446 web

Writing & Content

2

Semantic Scholar

semanticscholar.org

6.6M

visits/mo

▲ 11.2%

#10,569 web

Research & Analytics

3

5.8M

visits/mo

▲ 3.5%

#9,859 web

Productivity & Office

4

1.3M

visits/mo

▼ 10.2%

#42,761 web

Writing & Content

5

researchrabbit.ai

907.4K

visits/mo

▼ 17.3%

#51,921 web

Research & Analytics

6

700.2K

visits/mo

▲ 1.8%

#75,906 web

Research & Analytics

7

Connected Papers

connectedpapers.com

600.7K

visits/mo

▼ 18.7%

#76,429 web

Research & Analytics

8

204.8K

visits/mo

▼ 6.8%

#212,645 web

Writing & Content

9

159K

visits/mo

▼ 17.1%

#200,412 web

Writing & Content

10

106.2K

visits/mo

▼ 21.7%

#323,702 web

Research & Analytics

11

62.9K

visits/mo

▲ 3.3%

#561,691 web

Research & Analytics

12

57.9K

visits/mo

▲ 19.2%

#698,839 web

Research & Analytics

13

44.2K

visits/mo

▼ 98.8%

#17,447 web

Productivity & Office

14

explainpaper.com

35.2K

visits/mo

▼ 12.5%

#806,701 web

Productivity & Office

15

24.7K

visits/mo

▲ 8.4%

#1,194,734 web

Writing & Content

16

16.6K

visits/mo

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Writing & Content

17

9.6K

visits/mo

▼ 35.8%

#1,697,206 web

Writing & Content

18

academicgpt.net

1.2K

visits/mo

▼ 30.6%

#9,857,768 web

Productivity & Office