Guides: Artificial Intelligence: AI & Scholarly Research

AI Tools for Scholarly Research

ChatGPT
A Chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on an LLM. It can create prompts for subtopics, organize/outline a paper, and brainstorm open data sources; request keywords and boolean search strings related to a specific research question, and more. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Claude
An AI assistant that provides a variety of problem-solving capabilities including coding, writing and other creative tasks. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Copilot (UTMB Preferred Tool)
An AI-powered chatbot built on GPT-4 from Microsoft. Free version provided as part of UTMB's Microsoft 365.
Gemini
Conversational chatbot developed by Google, based on LaMDA family of LLMs. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
SciSpace
Provides a full-fledged research platform to accelerate scientific discovery and learning with tools to help users find and understand research papers and connect to a network of other relevant papers. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.

Consensus
An AI academic search engine that finds, synthesizes and summarizes research and key insights from research papers and provides citations. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Elicit
An AI academic search engine for scholarly, empirical research. Provides automated summarization, data extraction, and synthesizing scholarly papers. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Semantic Scholar
An AI-driven academic search engine for discovery of scientific literature. It provides brief summaries and datasets for the research community. Free.
Undermind
An AI assistant that provides scholarly sources and concepts with an interactive chat. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.

Litmaps
Uses citation network tracking and advanced searching features for uploaded research papers to produce literature maps on a research topic. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Research Rabbit
An AI powered research platform that uses a citation-based mapping tool to discover relationships between academic papers, authors, and provides visualizations. Free.

Elicit
An AI academic search engine for scholarly, empirical research. Provides automated summarization, data extraction, and synthesizing scholarly papers. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Perplexity
A conversation search engine that answers questions using natural language predictive text. Free.

Consensus
An AI academic search engine that finds, synthesizes and summarizes research and key insights from research papers and provides citations. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.
Explainpaper
Using AI-driven techniques to allow users to upload a paper, highlight confusing text, and receive an explanation. Free.
NotebookLM
Provides a chat bot that answers questions, provides summaries, create content, and more based on sources that you upload. Free.

ASReview
Experience open-source AI-aided systematic reviewing including transparent, reproducible, reliable, and rapid screening for informed decision-making. Free.
PICO Portal
AI-powered review platform and services for evidence syntheses and workflows. Free Basic Account; Subscription tiers available with added features.