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Elicit
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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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Infranodus
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Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
71K 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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Wonders AI - Research Workspace
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AI research workspace that searches 550M+ sources, organizes findings and helps draft literature reviews with traceable citations.
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Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Student: $6/mo billed yearly, verified academic email (regular price $16/mo)
Plus: $12/mo billed yearly (unlimited searches and AI usage, 1 collaborative workspace)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦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
- ✦Scholar Search
- ✦Semantic and boolean search across 550M+ sources
- ✦AI-assisted topic exploration and gap-finding
- ✦Highlighting, summarizing and organizing findings on boards
- ✦Writing editor with automated bibliography generation
- ✦Chat with papers, findings or project boards
- ✦Zotero and Overleaf sync, in-app PDF annotation
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →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
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- →PhD students conducting literature reviews
- →Researchers organizing sources across a project
- →Students writing evidence-based essays with citations
- →Teams needing shared research workspaces with SSO
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