Artificial Intelligence tools are fast-changing. Make sure to check each tool for features you are looking for.
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ChatGPT | Elicit AI |
Research Rabbit | Connected Papers |
Semantic Scholar | NotebookLM |
www.researchrabbit.ai
100s of millions of academic articles and covers more than 90%+ of materials that can be found in major databases used by academic institutions (such as Scopus, Web of Science, and others).
The default “Untitled Collection” will collect your search histories, based on which Research Rabbit will send you recommendations for three types of related results: Similar Works / Earlier Works / Later Works, viewable in graph such as Network, Timeline, First Authors etc.
Zotero integration: importing and exporting between these two apps.
Video Introduction to Research Rabbit
https://elicit.org
Elicit is a research assistant using language models like GPT-3 to automate parts of researchers’ workflows. Currently, the main workflow in Elicit is Literature Review. If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.
www.semanticscholar.org
A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.
The 4000+ results can be sorted by Fields of Study, Date Range, Author, Journals & Conferences
Save the papers in your Library folder. The Research Feeds will recommend similar papers based on the items saved.
Example - SERVQUAL: A multiple-item scale for measuring consumer perceptions of service quality
Total Citations: 22,438 [Note: these numbers were gathered when this guide was created]
Highly Influential Citations 2,001
Background Citations 6,109
Methods Citations 3,273
Results Citations 385
Semantic Reader
"Semantic Reader is an augmented reader with the potential to revolutionize scientific reading by making it more accessible and richly contextual" . It "uses artificial intelligence to understand a document’s structure and merge it with the Semantic Scholar’s academic corpus, providing detailed information in context via tooltips and other overlays." <https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader>.
Skim Papers Faster
"Find key points of this paper using automatically highlighted overlays. Available in beta on limited papers for desktop devices only." <https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader>. Press on the pen icon to activate the highlights.
TLDRs (Too Long; Didn't Read)
Try this example. Press the pen icon to reveal the highlighted key points.
TLDRs "are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a scientific paper generated using expert background knowledge and the latest GPT-3 style NLP techniques. This new feature is available in beta for nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology, and medicine..." <https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/tldr>