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Vicena
✓ verifiedPaid
AI research workspace combining literature search, protocol drafting, chemistry tools, and notebook computation for scientists.
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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
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
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)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Literature search across PubMed, arXiv, and Google Scholar
- ✦AI-assisted protocol drafting and hazard/assumption auditing
- ✦Built-in chemistry tools for molecular weight, hazards, and reactions
- ✦Jupyter notebook execution with RDKit and PySCF support
- ✦Persistent workspace storing protocols, files, and audit trails
- ✦Access to multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek) in one subscription
- ✦Quantum chemistry simulation via PySCF and ASE
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Researchers turning a question into a literature review and protocol
- →Chemists checking compound properties and reaction feasibility
- →Lab teams auditing experimental protocols for safety and gaps
- →Scientists running computational chemistry without separate tools
- →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
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