Research Guides: Artificial Intelligence: AI-Assisted Research Tools

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: Loyola Notre Dame Library does not subscribe to the tools listed here. This page serves purely as an informational resource. It is advised that you independently evaluate these tools and the methodologies for their usage. Hallucinations continue to be a problem in large language models, and all information should be verified by reading the original source.

AI-Assisted Research Tools

Connected Papers
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work. It deviates from citation research by using a similarity matrix centered around co-citation and bibliographic coupling. You can start with a paper, keyword search, or Boolean search. Once you do, build a graph and view the results.
Elicit
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.
Scite
scite is an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.

Elicit - The AI Research Assistant

Elicit: The AI Research Assistant

Elicit is an AI tool to find 'seed articles' to mine for keywords/subject headings. When you enter a question, it returns alternate questions that can lead to further "seed" articles.

Elicit was developed by the company Ought.

Searching Features:

Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review.
Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
While answering questions with research is the main focus of Elicit, there are also other research tasks that help with brainstorming, summarization, and text classification.
You can save and export your work to citation managers such as Zotero.

How to Search Elicit:

Scite

Scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that 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 is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Scite was founded by Josh Nicholson and Yuri Lazebnik and previously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Searching Features:

See and read each and every citation that was made to this paper by others.
Get aggregate information about the number of citations made, disaggregated by each classification type from our deep learning model.
Filter citations by additional attributes such as the section in the citing paper where the citation occurred, or whether the citing publication was a book, research paper, preprint, etc.
Search directly within the extracted text snippets to find relevant citations.

How to Search on Scite