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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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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
71K visits/mo
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ResearchRabbit
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Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.

1.2M visits/mo79 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
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Free: $0/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month

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Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • Research on AI governance
  • Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
  • Annual reports and updates
  • Information on AI regulation
  • Event summaries and announcements
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Understanding public attitudes towards AI
  • Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
  • Regulating downstream AI developers
  • Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
  • 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
  • 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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