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Name
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Purchasing Model
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Description
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Key Features
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Consensus
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Free,
Premium ($6.99 or $9.99/month),
Enterprise (custom). Students get 40% discount.
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“AI-powered scientific search engine” to summarize areas of consensus in academic research
Step by step instructions on how Consensus works
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Save searches and individual citations
GPT-4-powered summaries
Summarizes relevant findings when you search
Provides list of specific citations used to generate summary
Includes only peer-reviewed sources
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Semantic Scholar
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Free
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Free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.
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Provides 1 sentence TLDR for journal articles
Users can create unique libraries and receive AI informed recommendations and notifications of new papers
Institutional log-ins available
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Elicit
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Free for certain number of credits, then pay as you go. Contact them for enterprise subscription.
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A research assistant using LLMs to automate lit review, primarily through synthesis and extraction
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Uses semantic similarity rather than keywords for search
Generates custom summaries based on your query
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Scite.ai, Research Solutions, Inc.
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$20/month
Enterprise
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“Helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence.”
Scite Assistant (beta) uses generative AI to answer questions by querying their citation index
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Chrome extension
Enterprise version can track how research from across the institution is being cited
Zotero plugin available
API available
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ResearchRabbit
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Free
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“Search for papers and authors, monitor new literature, visualize research landscapes, and collaborate with colleagues.” -Mission statement
Search powered by PubMed and Semantic Scholar
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Create “collections” of papers and receive recommendations (“Spotify for papers”), visualize networks of papers and authorship, collaborate on collections.
Emphasis on visualization-based searching.
Zotero integration
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Scopus AI
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Elsevier institutional subscription only
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Scopus AI provides easy-to-read topic summaries based on trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion citations, and includes over 17 million author profiles.
Using ChatGPT hosted on Microsoft Azure
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Generates summaries of articles from 27,000 Elsevier academic journals. Search engine retrieves information then LLM summarizes (retrieval-augmented generation).
New features as of May 2024: concept map relationships, SML reranker, reflection layer, export to SciVal
Copilot feature (Aug 2024), “to optimize responses to highly specific or complex queries”.
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Perplexity.ai
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Search is free, can upgrade to Pro for $20/month or $200/year (GPT-4, and ability to upload files and ask q’s about them).
Enterprise Pro
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Advertised primarily as a search engine with an emphasis on finding accurate information and giving the citation of where the info comes from. Founder refers to it as an “answer engine,” as rather than giving a list of links in which one searches for the answer to their search question, Perplexity generates an answer and then points to its sources.
Pages (new May 2024) tool to help users create customizable articles to share content
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Real time search engine, cites sources, emphasis on accuracy.
Search focus: narrow down the sources used to generate the response (can search just within academic papers, or within Youtube, for example)
Copilot features asks follow up questions to narrow down your question to get more accurate results
Can upload files (plain text, code, PDF) as content to generate response.
Collections feature allows users to organize threads and invite others to collaborate on their “collections.”
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Dimensions Research GPT and Dimensions Research GPT Enterprise, Digital Science
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Research GPT used through ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise Accounts. Research GPT Enterprise used through ChatGPT Enterprise account.
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Ask research-related questions and draw from the Dimensions database in ChatGPT interface. Offers access to source for answers.
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AI Summarization for Dimensions, Digital Science
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Available to Dimensions users, both free web app and enhanced Dimensions platform
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Provides summaries and key insights from Dimensions articles
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Papers, ReadCube, Digital Science
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Pricing: “Essentials” includes AI chat with PDFs, “Pro” includes full AI Assistant features. Enterprise also available.
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AI search and article comprehension tool
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Chat with PDF, chat with set of references in your library (summaries, identify themes), natural language search, query builder to help with more complex searches, identify relevant papers. Search powered by Dimensions.
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Talpa
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Currently free to Syndetics Unbound subscribers while in beta mode
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A LibraryThing and ProQuest product that searches “authoritative book data”
Uses LLMs from ClaudeAI and OpenAI to power its search
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Displays items in a libraries collection first
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EBSCO
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Not yet commercially released: likely an add-on for subscribers
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EBSCO is piloting several uses of generative AI in EDS and EBSCOhost to improve search results and summarization of articles
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Article summarization and enhanced search capabilities due to increase in linked data relationships.
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JSTOR
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Limited beta release, beta expanding to institutions for Fall 2024.
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GenAI research tool, which will appear on content pages on JSTOR
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Generates summaries, suggests topics and shows related content within JSTOR corpus, answers user questions about document content.
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ScholarAI
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Individual subscriptions at several tiers: free, basic ($4.99/month), and premium ($8.99/month. Requires ScholarAI account and ChatGPT Plus to use the tool.
FAQ says a standalone tool that does not require ChatGPT Plus will be released in future.
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ChatGPT plugin built to interface with open access peer-reviewed literature. Also have ScholarAI GPT available in OpenAI’s GPT store.
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Generates snippets rather than summaries to minimize hallucinations
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Kudos
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Researchers can sign up for free to post their articles. Premium individual & group plans also available with additional features (more advanced metrics and better publicity for articles). Plans for publishers, universities, and pharma.
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Platform for showcasing research publications and making it accessible to wide audiences with reader-friendly summaries, now using AI to generate summaries. Announcement here.
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Keenious
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Free for core features with limited results and analysis, $10/month for expanded results and unlimited analysis.
Teams version coming soon, contact for university and institution pricing.
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Analyzes inputs (text, URL, pdf) to find relevant scholarly articles and related topics
Data for results coming from OpenAlex
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Word and Google Doc extensions available.
Use filters to sort further through results
Highlight search–highlight key parts of inputted document and search will be tailored accordingly
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Ask R Discovery
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Available in GPT store, or try for free on R Discovery’s website
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Ask questions and get a response that is a summary of most relevant papers from R Discovery’s databases, with citations. Followed by a result list of relevant papers. Running on OpenAI’s GPT models.
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Litmaps
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Basic version free, Pro and Team versions for a fee
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Discovery tool for academic articles that also generates visualizations of relationships between articles
Database: Crossref, Semantic Scholar, Open Alex
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Search and discovery, visualization through “literature map,” share with others, monitor when other papers on topic come out
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bioRxiv
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Pilot available on bioRxiv site
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Pilot in collaboration with ScienceCast that provides 3 AI-generated summaries for preprints on bioRxiv: one aimed at a general audience, one for a reader with some expertise in the subject, and one for a reader with high level expertise in the subject.
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ProQuest Research Assistant, Clarivate
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Beta testing in ProQuest One Literature
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Research companion for students that features conversational inquiry for search and discovery. Answers are grounded in ProQuest’s large and vetted collection of full text scholarly works.
Powered by Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform
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Provides summary answer to query, and lists sources selected as references to generate answer. User can access selected sources as well as a longer list of results.
Enhanced features available Sept 2024: offers users deeper engagement with full-text documents and help crafting effective searches
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Web of Science Research Assistant, Clarivate
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Conversational discovery tool for Web of Science Core Collection.
“The new generative AI-powered tool helps researchers find key papers faster, handle complex research tasks and visualize connections. The chat interface combined with the Web of Science knowledge graph allows researchers to get more out of their interactions with 120 years of trusted publication and citation data in the Web of Science Core Collection™”- Sept 2024 release
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Flexible search for documents, guided prompts and workflows, data visualizations.
Provides summary answer to query, and summary of sources selected as references to generate answer. User can access selected sources as well as a longer list of results.
User can choose between core search and Research Assistant
Can see visualization of documents published over time for your topic, topic map of related/connected concepts, and top authors for your topic.
Journal finder tool: enter your title and abstract to find relevant journals to publish in.
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Primo Research Assistant, Clarivate
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GenAI-powered conversational discovery for patrons exploring library materials
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Answers natural language queries with references based on top 5 abstracts, based on results found in Ex Libris Central Discovery Index. Search suggestions to help user expand topic. Non-English search and answer support. More on features here.
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SearchGPT, OpenAI (Prototype)
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Prototype; sign up to waitlist to be among users testing
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AI-powered search engine with real-time access to internet. Plans to integrate best of these features into ChatGPT in the future.
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Links to relevant sources, ability to ask follow-up questions,
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Undermind
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Tiered pricing; free tier is 10 searches/month analyzing limited # of papers
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AI-powered scientific research assistant. Provides list of relevant articles for conversational search query + summary.
Draws from Semantic Scholar database; currently searching abstracts and metadata but plan to incorporate full text discovery in the future.
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Chat with research assistant until it fully understands what you are looking for to perform most accurate search.
Gives percentage of how relevant article is to your search. Also provides short summary next to each result of why it is relevant.
Estimates percentage of existing papers on the topic it has searched, with option to expand search
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Hasanyone.com, FutureHouse
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Github page for PaperQA2 RAG model (Apache 2.0 license)
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“Minimalist AI tool to search if anyone has ever researched a given topic”
Built on PaperAQ2 RAG model
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Ask natural language questions in form of “Has anyone____ ?”
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