A list of AI-powered tools that are useful for researchers.

Zero-cost

These tool are free to use. Check their policy for details.

  • Perplexity
    • Ask questions and get answers with citations
  • Research rabbit
    • Upload papers and investigates its connections with other papers
  • Scopus AI
    • UI to the Scopus database (comprehensive, multidisciplinary, trusted abstract and citation database)
  • Semantic scholar
    • Search for scientific literature
  • scispace
    • Toolkit for research including literature review, reading a paper and writing a paper
  • Consensus
    • Search Engine for Research
  • Paper digest
    • Follow, search, review & rewrite scientific literature with no hallucinations
  • Explainpaper
    • Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation
  • Semantic Reader
    • Scientific Reading Application

Freemium

There is a free (limited) and a paid version.

  • ChatPDF
    • Reader assitant: chat with a pdf
  • LiquidText
    • Connect related notes into ideas, and we connect your ideas into reports
  • Connected papers
    • Explore academic papers in a visual graph
  • Scholarcy
    • Artcile summarizer

The service is fully paid, and there is a trial version that is exhausted after some use.

  • humata.ai
    • Reader assitant: chat with a pdf
  • Elicit
    • Search engine for reasearch
  • ChatDoc
    • Chat with documents and get instant answers with cited sources
  • genei
    • Summarise background reading and produce blogs, articles, and reports
  • scite.ai
    • Search Engine for Research
  • Enago Research Hub
    • Researcher toolkit
  • iris.ai
    • Researcher toolkit

Other tools

Generative AIs

These tools generate content that might not be accurate

Papers

So, you want a publication, right?

Accessing

To access papers in the internet, you can use this tools.

Metadata

To find information about a publication, you can use this tools.