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Elicit
Elicit is an AI research assistant designed to automate and accelerate literature reviews by helping researchers find relevant papers, extract key data, summarize findings, and ask questions of research documents.
Key Features
- Search across a database of over 125 million academic papers
- Automated screening of papers based on criteria
- Extraction of data from papers (including from tables)
- Summarization of single or multiple papers
- Q&A with uploaded papers
- Dedicated workflows for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Export to CSV, BIB, RIS.
Pros
- Significantly speeds up the literature review process
- Powerful data extraction capabilities
- Helps uncover relevant papers that might be missed
- Free tier for basic exploration.
Cons
- Language models can still make errors, requiring human oversight
- Advanced features and higher usage limits are in paid tiers
- Best suited for empirical domains like biomedicine and machine learning.
Best For
Graduate students and researchers conducting literature reviews, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses, and needing to efficiently extract and synthesize information from academic papers.