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Support documentation for Elicit, an AI research assistant tool sometimes used by AI safety researchers for literature review; relevant for understanding the tool's scope and limitations when conducting research synthesis.
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This support page documents the data sources used by Elicit, an AI-powered research assistant tool that helps researchers find and analyze academic literature. It explains what databases and paper repositories Elicit draws from when performing literature searches and evidence synthesis.
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- •Describes the academic databases and paper repositories that power Elicit's literature search functionality
- •Relevant for researchers evaluating Elicit's coverage and reliability for systematic reviews or evidence synthesis
- •Elicit is commonly used in AI safety research workflows for automated literature review
- •Understanding data sources helps assess potential gaps or biases in Elicit-assisted research
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1. [Find Papers: Adding filter criteria in natural language\\
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Elicit's Find Papers step can handle filter criteria directly …](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/979137)
2. [Understanding paper source labels in Elicit\\
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When working with papers in Elicit, you'll see labels …](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/9539905)
3. [Full Text Screening in Elicit Systematic Reviews\\
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For a rigorous, PRISMA-compliant literature review, abstract screening is …](https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/9514625)
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# Elicit's source for papers
Edited 5 months ago
Elicit searches across over 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and OpenAlex. This covers all academic disciplines.
**How often are papers added?**
- **Alerts**: Daily updates from OpenAlex
- **Reports, Systematic Review, and Find Papers**: Weekly updates from Semantic Scholar and PubMed
There may be a brief delay between a paper appearing in our source databases and being available in Elicit.
## Our Data Sources
Elicit pulls papers from these major sources:
**Semantic Scholar**
- 200+ million publications across all fields
- Direct partnerships with 50+ major publishers
- [Learn more about Semantic Scholar's coverage](https://www.semanticscholar.org/about/publishers)
**OpenAlex**
- 243 million publications from 260,000+ sources
- About 2x broader coverage than Web of Science or Scopus
- [Learn more about OpenAlex's coverage](https://help.openalex.org/hc/en-us/articles/27190301279127-What-content-does-OpenAlex-include-and-how-does-it-compare-to-other-databases)
**PubMed**
- 33+ million citations
- Focuses on biomedical literature, life sciences, and clinical medicine
- [Learn more about PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/)
[**ClinicalTrials.gov**](http://clinicaltrials.gov/)
- You can opt to search for US clinical trials directly on [clinicaltrials.gov](http://clinicaltrials.gov/) by selecting the clinical trials corpus during search
Some of the resources in these databases overlap, and Elicit eliminates incomplete listings from its results, for a total of about 138 million papers f
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