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Elicit

AI research assistant to automate research workflows, find papers, summarize, and extract data.

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Overview

Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers. Elicit can also help with other research tasks like brainstorming, summarization and text classification.

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Best for

Short scenarios where Elicit tends to shine.

  • Speeding up literature reviews

    Best for Researchers

  • Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    Best for Academics

  • Learning about new domains

    Best for Consultants

  • Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews

    Best for Data analysts

How it works

Use Elicit by asking research questions in natural language. The AI will search, summarize, extract data, and chat with over 125 million papers to provide answers and insights.

Example outputs 1

Sample generations and before/after results for Elicit.

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Access & connections

Where you can use Elicit.

Platforms

Web

Capabilities

What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.

Highlights

  • AI-enabled systematic reviews
  • Research reports
  • Upload your own PDFs
  • Quick summaries
  • Source quotes
  • Question answering

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FAQ 7

What is Elicit?
Elicit uses language models to help you automate research workflows, like parts of literature review. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers. Elicit can also help with other research tasks like brainstorming, summarization and text classification.
How to use Elicit?
Use Elicit by asking research questions in natural language. The AI will search, summarize, extract data, and chat with over 125 million papers to provide answers and insights.
How do researchers use Elicit?
Researchers commonly use Elicit to speed up literature reviews, find papers they couldn’t find elsewhere, automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and learn about new domains. Elicit tends to work best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results.
What is Elicit not a good fit for?
Elicit does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper. It tends to work less well for identifying facts (e.g. "How many cars were sold in Malaysia last year?") and in theoretical or non-empirical domains.
What types of data can Elicit search over?
Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus, which covers all academic disciplines. When you extract data from papers in Elicit, Elicit will use the full text if available or the abstract if not.
How accurate are the answers in Elicit?
A good rule of thumb is to assume that around 90% of the information you see in Elicit is accurate. It’s very important for you to check the work in Elicit closely. We try to make this easier for you by identifying all of the sources for information generated with language models.
What happens to papers uploaded to Elicit?
When you upload papers to analyze in Elicit, those papers will remain private to you and will not be shared with anyone else.
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