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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A topical overview of AI in research and education

AI Tools for Research Comparison

Feature	Scite	Elicit	Litmaps	Inciteful	Research Rabbit	Scholarcy	Semantic Scholar	Consensus
Purpose	Analyzes citation patterns for literature reviews	Automates research workflows, especially empirical research	Visualizes article connections through interactive maps	Provides related papers and shows citation relationships	Discovers and visualizes relevant literature and authors	Summarizes research articles and creates flashcards	Finds and summarizes citations	AI-powered search engine
Key Features	Citation analysis	• Displays relevant papers • Summarizes key information	• Interactive maps • Citation tracking	• Citation relationships • Multidisciplinary research support	• Visualizations • Personalized recommendations • Based on Semantic Scholar	• Summarizes articles • Highlights key points	TL;DR summaries	• Analyzes research papers to look for consensus • Based on Semantic Scholar
Price	Subscription required	Free with sign-up; Pro subscription available	Free for limited use; Pro subscription for unlimited access	Free	Free	Free; Scholarcy Plus at $45/year	Free	Free
Best For	Literature review and critical analysis	Streamlining empirical research	Exploring research connections	Multidisciplinary research	Discovering literature and author connections	Simplifying reading and engagement with research articles	Discovering research literature	Identifying consensus within research areas

Scite

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Scite
“Helps researchers better discover and understand research articles by showing how they have been cited.” Price: $20/month

Elicit

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Elicit
Uses machine learning to help you with your research: find papers, extract key claims, summarize, brainstorm ideas, and more.” Price: users automatically get 5,000 free credits to use. After those credits run out, users need to subscript to Elicit plus: $12 per month, billed monthly $144 per year.

LitMaps

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LitMaps
"Bring your literature review to life by visualizing your papers using literature maps (Litmaps). A Litmap shows the relationships between the articles in your collection in the form of connecting lines which trace the citations for you.” Price: free basic search for up to 20 inputs, Pro $10/month unlimited inputs.

Inciteful

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Inciteful
Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.” Price: free

Learn Your Research Field Faster With Inciteful: A New Network Analysis Tool For Research

Research Rabbit

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Research Rabbit
A citation-based literature mapping tool. Price: free

Scholarcy

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Scholarcy
"An online summarizing tool that generates and converts long articles into summary flashcards." Price: $9.99/month

Semantic Scholar

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Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar Tutorials

Consensus

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Consensus
AI powered search engine for research

How to Search & Best Practices (Consensus)