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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.

2.1M visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
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Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.

113K visits/mo1.1K saves
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Scholar AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.

156K visits/mo
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Infranodus
✓ verifiedFreemium

Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.

71K visits/mo
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Thesify
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AI reviewer that critiques academic manuscripts and Coauthor agents that search, cite, and draft alongside researchers.

161K visits/mo32K saves
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom

No public pricing

Basic: $9.99/month (50 credits/month, 9TB uploads)
Premium: $18.99/month (unlimited GPT & Copilot use)
Credits: $4.99 (25 credits)
Credits: $9.99 (50 credits)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering
  • AI-generated visual maps of research topics
  • Clusters papers into themes
  • Open-access resource discovery
  • Open-source and nonprofit
  • Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
  • Search across millions of peer-reviewed papers
  • Agentic AI chat that consults research and uploaded PDFs
  • Auto-citation in over 2,600 citation styles
  • One-click Zotero/Mendeley library import with metadata and PDFs
  • ScholarAI GPT available in the ChatGPT GPT Store
  • Developer API for integrating research search
  • 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
  • AI manuscript review flagging gaps in argument and evidence
  • Citation search across 200+ million academic sources
  • Coauthor agents that search, read, and draft alongside users
  • Journal recommender and chat support
  • Confidentiality guarantee that documents aren't used for AI training
Use cases
  • Speeding up literature reviews
  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Learning about new domains
  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
  • Get an overview of a research field
  • Find relevant papers faster
  • Identify key concepts in the literature
  • Embed discovery tools in library systems
  • Finding and citing academic sources for a paper
  • Chatting with AI about uploaded research PDFs
  • Importing an existing reference library for a new project
  • Building custom apps on top of academic search via API
  • Research and idea generation
  • SEO content-gap analysis
  • Qualitative and market research
  • Graduate students refining a thesis or dissertation
  • Researchers preparing a manuscript for journal submission
  • Students polishing essays and reports for coursework
  • Getting fast feedback without waiting on a supervisor
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