Elicit
The AI Research Assistant
Overview
Elicit is an AI research assistant designed to help researchers with literature reviews. By using language models, Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword matches, summarize key takeaways, and extract important information into a structured table. It's particularly useful for identifying themes and concepts across a large number of papers.
✨ Key Features
- Semantic search for academic papers
- Summarization of paper abstracts and key findings
- Extraction of data into structured tables
- Finds related papers and concepts
- Workflow automation for literature reviews
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Focus on automating systematic reviews and evidence synthesis
- Ability to extract and structure data from papers into tables
- Semantic search capabilities
Unique Value: Automate the most time-consuming parts of literature reviews, allowing researchers to focus on analysis and insights.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Dramatically speeding up the process of conducting literature reviews.
- Identifying relevant research papers that might be missed with traditional keyword searches.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Full-text data extraction from all papers (limited by access)
- General academic writing assistance
🏆 Alternatives
While other tools assist with finding papers, Elicit excels at synthesizing information and extracting data from them at scale.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: One-time 5,000 credits.
🔄 Similar Tools in AI Research Assistants
SciSpace
An AI-powered platform for researchers to discover, read, and write academic papers....
Perplexity AI
An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers to questions with citations....
Consensus
A search engine that uses AI to find and summarize findings from scientific research....
ResearchRabbit
A discovery tool that helps researchers find relevant papers and visualize research landscapes....
Scite
An AI-powered tool that shows how research papers have been cited, providing context and classificat...
Paperpal
An AI-powered writing assistant for academics, offering grammar checks, paraphrasing, and more....