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AI tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
AI research assistant for reading, searching, and writing about academic papers, built for researchers managing a personal library.
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.
AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
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- ✦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
- ✦AI-assisted search across academic papers
- ✦Chat-based Q&A over uploaded documents with source citations
- ✦Personal research library with retention limits by plan
- ✦AI writing agent for drafting research-based content
- ✦API access for institutions and businesses
- ✦Adjustable file upload size (up to 300 pages on top tier)
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library
- →Finding papers relevant to a research topic
- →Getting quick summaries and answers from long PDFs
- →Managing and revisiting a personal library of research papers
- →Drafting literature-informed writing with AI assistance
- →Integrating paper search/analysis into an institution's own tools via API
- →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
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences