SciLink helps you build a research network, not just send one cold email. Describe what you want to work on in your own words, and it finds the professors and labs doing it, with a plain explanation of why each one fits. Then it shows the people around them: their co-authors, their lab and the groups they work with, so one good match leads you to the next. When you’re ready to reach out, it helps you write a first email that shows you know their work.

ChatGPT is a general assistant, not a research directory. It can hallucinate, describing people, papers and affiliations that read convincingly but are not accurate, and it does not aim for completeness. You get a handful of plausible names rather than everyone in a field who fits what you asked for. SciLink is built for this one task. It reads each professor’s real papers and grants, compares everyone it knows with what you wrote, and shows the papers and funding behind each match so you can check it yourself.

Undergraduates looking for a lab to join. Students building a shortlist of advisors before they apply to PhD programs. Researchers looking for collaborators outside their usual circle. Anyone who wants to connect with the experts in their field.

Yes. A free account includes 10 full searches a day, the top 8 matches for each, 10 people from their lab, 10 co-authors and 10 people one step further on every professor’s page, and a starter email template. Lab pages and your saved list are free too. Pro opens up the whole network: every person a professor works with, and everyone their co-authors work with, so you can find someone who can introduce you instead of writing in cold.

The professors and labs working on what you described, and the papers that show it. The people they work with, so you see a whole group instead of one name. Whether they have funding right now and how long it runs, which tells you if a lab is growing or winding down. And the conferences where the work gets presented.