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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
✓ verifiedFree

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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The Rundown AI
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Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.

630K 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
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SciSummary
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.

74K visits/mo162K 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

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free Trial: $0 for first 7 days (30,000 words, 5 figures, 100 chat messages)
Student: $0 for first month (promo code, unlimited use)
Pro: $4/month billed as $48/year (unlimited summaries, figures, chat, and searches)

Free trial available

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
  • Daily AI news digest delivered by email
  • Practical application tips alongside each story
  • Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
  • AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
  • Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
  • Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
  • Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
  • Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
  • 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
  • Students digesting dense research papers quickly
  • Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
  • Academics organizing a personal paper library
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