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Rayyan
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.

1.1M visits/mo
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Paper Digest
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.

140K 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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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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Iris AI
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Enterprise AI knowledge platform that unifies complex regulated-industry data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence for R&D and agents.

56K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (3 active reviews, 2 free reviewers)
Essential: $8.33/month billed quarterly
Advanced: $13.33/month billed quarterly (9 active reviews, 10 free reviewers)

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Core features
  • 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
  • literature review generator with per-sentence citations
  • AI reader for PDFs
  • AI writer with citations
  • academic claim verification
  • question answering over literature
  • daily, conference and best-paper digests
  • cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
  • 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
  • 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
  • Axion for turning data chaos into AI-ready intelligence
  • Neuralith for converting enterprise knowledge into an AI engine
  • RSpace for precision intelligence in complex R&D
  • Data unification across fragmented enterprise sources
  • Built for regulated, compliance-driven industries
Use cases
  • 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
  • staying current with new research
  • generating cited literature reviews
  • reading and understanding papers
  • verifying academic claims
  • tracking topics and conferences
  • 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
  • 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
  • Grounding enterprise AI agents in trusted internal knowledge
  • Accelerating R&D literature and data analysis
  • Unifying siloed regulated data for AI applications
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