LibGuides: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guide: Research Assistants

Scopus AI

Scopus AI is an add-on to Scopus, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database published by Elsevier that is available to all UTSW affiliates through library subscription. Scopus AI pulls from this research corpus, specifically the abstracts, to generate summaries and provide insights on a given topic or question.

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Note: Most of these tools are not 100% free, as they often have usage limits or paywalled features.

Connected Papers
Connected Papers is a tool for visually exploring academic literature based on a similarity metric that utilizes co-citations and bibliographic coupling. It enables users to discover relevant papers by starting with one or more seed papers or by searching for keywords.
Consensus
Consensus is an AI tool that analyzes scientific documents to extract key points and data, aiding researchers and academics in quickly understanding the consensus in literature and facilitating faster literature reviews.
Elicit
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.
Inciteful
Inciteful is an AI tool designed to help researchers discover and analyze academic papers and trends in the literature, offering insights through visual maps that connect papers by citations and topics.
LitMaps
LitMaps is a visualization tool that allows researchers to see a dynamic, visual map of the relationships between academic papers, helping them track developments in a specific field and identify key influencers.
OpenEvidence
An AI-powered platform that aggregates, synthesizes, and visualizes peer reviewed medical literature in a format intended to be easily understood and support healthcare professionals in learning and making evidence-based decisions. Access granted by providing your NPI or student ID.
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered search tool tailored for academic research that helps users find relevant scientific papers, and understand complex topics more efficiently by summarizing research and highlighting important findings.
Research Rabbit
ResearchRabbit is a comprehensive research platform that empowers users to discover and visualize relevant literature and scholars by leveraging a database of academic articles primarily sourced from OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar.
Scite AI
Scite AI is an innovative platform that uses deep learning to evaluate and contextualize scientific papers, providing 'Smart Citations' that indicate whether a study has been supported or contradicted by subsequent research.

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