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Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.
AI research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.
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- ✦Curated intelligence across four domains
- ✦Tiered source channels from news to research
- ✦Verified and attributed human insight
- ✦Daily updates on fast-changing topics
- ✦Mobile and web access
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library
- →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
- →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