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Elicit
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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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researcher.life
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Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
723K visits/mo
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ThesisAI
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AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
189K visits/mo32K saves
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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
No public pricing
Per document: from $4
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Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦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
- ✦Scholar Search
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦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
- →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
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- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →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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