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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.
Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
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- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Text network / knowledge graph visualization
- ✦Topic modeling and content-gap detection
- ✦AI insight and question generation
- ✦GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
- ✦Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
- ✦Obsidian plugin and browser extension
- ✦Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
- ✦Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
- ✦Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
- ✦Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
- ✦Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
- ✦Alerts for new related research
- ✦AI academic writing assistant with grammar and phrasing suggestions
- ✦Journal recommender matched to a manuscript's abstract
- ✦Scientific illustration library with drag-and-drop editor
- ✦Literature discovery across 300M+ academic papers
- ✦Plagiarism checking and multilingual translation support
- ✦Research skill courses included with subscription
- ✦Structured section-by-section paper summarization
- ✦Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
- ✦Chat with figures for data interpretation
- ✦Folder and tag-based library organization
- ✦Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
- ✦ChatGPT connector integration
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →Building a systematic literature review efficiently
- →Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
- →Tracking new publications related to saved papers
- →Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
- →Non-native English researchers polishing manuscripts before submission
- →Finding the right journal for a paper's subject area
- →Building scientific figures without a graphic designer
- →Keeping up with new literature in a research field
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library