Top ACADEMIC GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Local-first research memory for Codex: checkpoints, progress ledgers, and Markdown/JSON paper notes. Early alpha.

The local-first AI assisted research workspace for scientific writing & publishing. Research, Write, Compile, Verify and Publish in LaTeX • Typst • Markdown • Git-native • Open Source • Desktop Performance

Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries

State-of-the-Art Source Code Plagiarism & Collusion Detection. Check for plagiarism in a set of programs.

Open-source research workspace for connecting sources, evidence, notes and ideas. Built for academic research with Zotero integration. Available on MacOS, Windows and Linux.

CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained C-code generation and interfaces state-of-the-art codes such as SUNDIALS, IPOPT etc. It can be used from C++, Python, Matlab/Octave, Julia or Javascript

The Journal of Open Source Software