Academic search tools have been designed to search for and discovery academic information from a specific dataset of academic publications and internet material. In general, all those listed here will perform searches using keywords where they’ll list relevant publications as output. Some of these tools will also use AI to summarize or synthesize the output, while others will use visualization tools to have link themes and concepts found in those publications.
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| Semantic Scholar | AI-driven academic search and discovery tool. | https://www.semanticscholar.org/ |
| Research Rabbit | Research platform for discovering and visualizing both literature and scholars. | https://researchrabbitapp.com/home |
| Dimensions | Platform that provides a comprehensive view of the research landscape. |
or via ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-STAmDxyVG-dimensions-research-gpt |
| Consensus | AI-powered academic search engine with analysis feature. | https://consensus.app/search/ |
| Elicit | AI academic search tool with summarization, data extraction, and synthesization. | https://elicit.com/ |
| Perplexity.ai | General internet search tool with verifiable responses. | https://www.perplexity.ai/ |
Similar to the publicly accessible academic search tools, these tool will provide outputs based on keywords or natural language inputs based on academically published items. Unlike the publicly accessible academic search tools, many of these tools are only available via an add-on to an institutional subscription to the organization’s main project (i.e., Scopus AI is an available add-on to a Scopus subscription).
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| Scite Assistant | Available to individuals via subscription. | https://scite.ai/ |
| Scopus AI | Via Elsevier. Only available with institutional subscription. | https://www.elsevier.com/products/scopus/scopus-ai |
| EBSCO | Under development. | https://www.ebsco.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-ai |
| JSTOR | Beta release available to those with personal account via an institutional subscription. | https://about.jstor.org/gen-ai/#program |
| bioRxiv | AI-generated summaries available for some of the pre-prints. Look for red “automated services” button. | https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11/08/summaries |
| Clarivate | ProQuest, Web of Science, and Primo all testing an AI-based Research Assistant. | |