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Elicit: AI for scientific research
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3/5
Good(3)Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.
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Elicit is a practical AI research tool relevant to AI safety researchers for literature review and evidence synthesis, but it is not an AI safety resource itself; current tags (intelligence-explosion, recursive-self-improvement, automl) appear to be incorrectly assigned.
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Importance: 22/100tool pagetool
Summary
Elicit is an AI-powered research tool that helps scientists and researchers efficiently search, analyze, and synthesize academic literature. It searches over 138 million papers, automates systematic review workflows, and generates cited research reports, claiming up to 80% time savings on literature reviews.
Key Points
- •Searches 138M+ academic papers and 545K clinical trials using semantic search, reducing keyword dependency
- •Generates structured research reports with sentence-level citations inspired by systematic review methodology
- •Automates screening and data extraction for systematic literature reviews with claimed 80% time savings
- •Provides alerts for new research, library organization, and analysis of up to 20,000 data points at once
- •Used by over 5 million researchers; positioned as accuracy-focused alternative to general-purpose AI chat tools
Cited by 3 pages
| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Improvement and Recursive Enhancement | Capability | 69.0 |
| Elicit (AI Research Tool) | Organization | 63.0 |
| AI-Assisted Research Workflows: Best Practices | -- | 46.0 |
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# AI for Scientific Research
Elicit helps researchers be 10x more evidence-based
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This video demonstrates Elicit's report generation workflow. A researcher types a research question, Elicit searches through millions of academic papers, and automatically generates a structured research report with citations in seconds.
## TRUSTED BY OVER 5 MILLION RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING AT
[**Read our customer stories**](https://elicit.com/customer-stories)
## Stand on the shoulders of giants
Use Elicit to understand more quickly what science already knows, so that you can discover the unknown.
**Features**
## Research takes many forms
Whether you need a quick answer or are planning a multi-month comprehensive review, Elicit can support you from beginning to end.
### Search
- Search over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, with more data sources coming soon.
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- Elicit's semantic search means you don't have to know all the right keywords to get relevant results.
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[Learn more](https://elicit.com/solutions/search)
### Research reports
- Elicit generates high-quality research briefs based on a process inspired by systematic reviews.
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- Unlike with other AI tools, Elicit Reports can be deeply customized. You can change which papers and what information is covered in the reports.
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[Learn more](https://elicit.com/solutions/reports)
### Systematic literature review
- Elicit can automate screening and data extraction of systematic reviews, while partially supporting search and report generation.
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- Researchers report up to 80% time savings using Elicit for systematic reviews.
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[Learn more](https://elicit.com/solutions/systematic-review)
### Library
- As you use Elicit, store and organize the sources that you find so that you can easily reuse them in future projects.
[Learn more](https://elicit.com/solutions/library)
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