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Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
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- ✦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 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
- ✦Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
- ✦AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
- ✦Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
- ✦Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
- ✦Risk of bias assessment tools
- ✦Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
- ✦Mobile app for screening on the go
- ✦Scholar Search
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →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
- →Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
- →Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
- →Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
- →Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
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- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems