Managing the fire hose of new papers, preprints, and conference proceedings is one of the biggest sources of anxiety for researchers. A systematic mon
2024-07-08
Connected Papers (connectedpapers.com) generates visual graphs of academic papers based on a technique called bibliographic coupling — papers that fre
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Citation counts on Google Scholar tell you how many times a paper was cited. Scite.ai (scite.ai) tells you whether those citations supported or contra
2024-06-03
SciSpace (formerly Typeset, now at scispace.com) is built around a single insight: reading academic papers is the main bottleneck in research producti
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Zotero is the most capable free reference manager available, and it's been integrated into AI research workflows in several ways that amplify its util
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Consensus (consensus.app) is designed for one specific task: answering yes/no or "what does the evidence say about X" questions by searching and synth
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The traditional literature review strategy — search keywords, find papers, check their references, chase references of references — misses the network
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Elicit (elicit.com) is built specifically for academic research tasks. Unlike general AI assistants, it connects to a database of over 200 million res
2024-03-07
Google's NotebookLM (released 2024) lets you upload documents and query them with AI that's grounded in your specific uploads — not in general trainin
2024-02-18
Perplexity AI launched in 2022 as a "search engine with citations." For academic work, it occupies a specific niche: faster initial discovery of resea
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