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Artificial Intelligence in Research

Inciteful

Pros:

  • Completely free with no features locked behind subscriptions or paywalls
  • Visualizes scholarly conversations
  • Reveals a network between two similar articles

Cons:

  • Requires an initial article to begin the search
  • Does not directly link to full text
  • Five sources are recommended for the most relevant results

Litmaps

Pros:

  • Visualizes a scholarly conversation
  • Identifies sources through a network of citations
  • Connects articles with similar topics
  • Suggests keywords for future searches

Cons:

  • Useful filters (publication date and keywords) are locked behind a paid subscription
  • Full text may not be available

Elicit

Pros:

  • No initial source required
  • Simple language research questions as well as longer copy-pasted assignment prompts are supported
  • Summarizes key findings from abstracts
  • Filters available for publication date, PDF availability, type of study, and keywords in the abstract

Cons:

  • Works on a "credit" system to conduct searches and more complex questions require more credits
  • It is not possible to purchase or refresh credits on a free account
  • Doesn't directly link to articles, and full text may not be available

JSTOR Text Analyzer

Pros:

  • Upload documents to find related resources
  • Connects directly to sources in York College's JSTOR collection

Cons:

  • Limited to resources in JSTOR
  • This tool is still in development and currently only available as a beta

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