InfoGuides: AI Tools for Scholarly Research: List of AI Tools for Scholarly Research

Last Updated: May 22, 2024 2:52 PM

AI Tools for Scholarly Research

Disclaimer: RIT does not subscribe to any of these tools, nor do we endorse any of these products. Researcher discretion is advised. Regarding services which allow you to upload PDFs or text content: do not upload content obtained from library databases or resources. Do not upload content copyrighted by others. Be cautious uploading your own content and check how it might be re-used.

AI Tool Directories

Futurepedia
AI tool directory.
Open Tools

Article Synthesis and Interrogation

SCISPACE
AI-powered tool that can explain and elaborate academic texts with customizable information outputs.

GPT Tools

Copilot (formerly Bing Chat)
Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot (click on chat at the top of the page to begin).
BIT.AI
AI-powered collaboration platform for teams and researchers.
ChatGPT
The tool that started it all (or at least this InfoGuide)! Use ChatGPT to generate search terms for your research. Please be aware that the citations provided by ChatGPT are often "hallucinated" or not real. Do not cite these fake citations in your work!
ChatPDF
Like ChatGPT but with more PDFs.

Literature Review/Discovery Tools

Connected Papers
Free edition allows 5 free graphs per month. A fee based premium option is also available.
Consensus
AI-powered search engine for research papers.
Elicit
A tool to assist with finding relevant papers, summarize abstracts, and improve research workflows.
Google Scholar
One of the original machine learning based literature review discovery tools. Free.
Keenious
"Recommends relevant research papers by analyzing your document with powerful artificial intelligence algorithms" Free and fee options. Fee based offers more features.
Lateral.io
Fee based but first 500 pages are free to try product out.
LitMaps
Free and fee plans. Basic search up to 20 inputs; 100 articles & 1 lit map.
Open Knowledge Maps
AI tool for research topic mapping.
ResearchRabbit
The "Spotify for papers" assists you with finding relevant research papers according to your research interests. Includes email digests and interactive visualizations. No enhancement or development since it launched.
scite_
Fee based with free 7 day trial.
Semantic Scholar
A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.

Writing Tools

Grammarly
Trinka
Online grammar and language correction AI-powered tool.

Generative AI Tool Tracker from Ithaka S+R

Generative AI Tool Tracker from Ithaka S+R