AI for Academic Research | Elicit: Al for scientific research
AI for academic research
Elicit automates research so that you can make novel contributions to your field
TRUSTED BY OVER 5 MILLION RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING AT
Use cases
Good research practices generalize across domains
Elicit supports researchers in every academic discipline
Biology
Example Uses & Reports
What biological pathways is TDP-43 known to be part of?
Chemistry
Example Uses & Reports
Database of ligands developed for HMG-CoA reductase
Computer science & Machine learning
Example Uses & Reports
Benchmarks measuring performance on scientific literature review tasks
Biomedicine
Example Uses & Reports
Biomarkers used for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Social studies
Example Uses & Reports
Impact of electoral systems on democratic representation and citizen engagement
Economics
Example Uses & Reports
What is the estimated impact of AI on employment?
Policy
Example Uses & Reports
NIH research investments vs. other national research funding agencies
Data sources
Elicit has all the data you need in one place
Elicit is your one-stop shop to search over high-quality scientific sources
Academic papers
Search over 138 million academic papers and conference proceedings
Updates weekly
Included sources
Clinical trials
Search over 545,000 trials
registered on clinicaltrials.gov
Updates in real-time
Included sources
BYOData
Upload your own documents
Integrate company subscriptions to access more full-text papers
Supported files
Workflows
How academics & researchers use Elicit
Search
Quickly search in natural language over our database of 138+ million papers.
Reports
Elicit will generate detailed literature reviews of 10+ pages to summarize all of the evidence that's been published.
Data extraction
Create tables of up to 20,000 cells to compare information across thousands of documents.
Systematic reviews
Step-by-step workflows guide you through search, screening, and data extraction for the most comprehensive evidence synthesis
Features
We built academic rigor into the product
Sentence-level citations
- Elicit cites every AI-generated claim with sentence-level citations from the underlying papers.
Other AI tools only link to references. They make you read the entire paper to figure out where the AI answer is coming from. Sometimes, the information is not even in the cited source!
Dynamic screening & extraction
- Sometimes you don't know which papers you want, or what information you want from them, until you see what's out there.
Elicit's interactive screening & data extraction help you explore the literature in real-time so that you can refine what you're looking for.
Accuracy & precision
- We've rigorously trained and validated Elicit's accuracy. Elicit can analyze detailed information such as PFS, adverse effects, and detailed interventions or outcomes by trial arm at levels of accuracy exceeding human extraction.
It’s more than chat
- Research is a complicated, multi-step process that branches and burrows in all directions.
Scientists love Elicit's multi-step workflows and large, interactive tables that let you go broader and deeper than chat.
Testimonials
What expert researchers say
Once Elicit prompts are piloted and ready for use, less experienced researchers, such as undergraduates, can easily upload papers, run queries, and export Elicit information for expert review...Elicit has great potential to keep large-scale, multivariable meta-analyses tractable and accessible to researchers.
Anne-Marie Iselin
Associate professor
at
Elon University
When writing a review on spore germination, I gave Elicit a very tricky and obscure mechanistic question from my field. The results were impressively complete, nuanced, and useful—I already sent the tool to the rest of my lab.
Josh Cofsky
Postdoctoral researcher
at
Harvard Medical School
Elicit’s going to help me find that paper that’s high quality that I didn’t know was there—like that needle-in-the-haystack kind of paper. I really like that.
Chris Glass
Professor of the Practice
at
Boston College