What type of AI: Research Assistant
User account: Immediate access is available on their homepage but you can also create a free account.
What it does: Allows access to millions of academic papers. Features a citation analytics tool that identifies highly influential authors and traces prior work in an area of research.
Where it pulls data from: Web indexing and partnerships with scientific journals, indexes, and content providers
How you can use it: You can access scientific papers in their research area, as well as see suggestions for related papers. Start by entering keywords from a research question. Results appear in order of relevance to your keywords. Browse the articles it provides, use the filters to change how the results are shown, or click the Related Papers tab for similar papers. Each paper includes an analysis of the citations and identifies "highly influential citations." Citations within a work can be viewed based on type. Works that cite this work can also be viewed and explored. Papers that include a PDF have a TLDR feature that summarizes the findings.
What type of AI: Research Assistant
User account: Start searching from their homepage but to fully access results, users should create a free account first.
What it does: Searches millions of academic papers for science-based answers to research questions or keywords.
Where it pulls data from: Current source material comes from the Semantic Scholar database.
How you can use it: You can use it as a search engine and input keywords or questions to locate scholarly sources. After you enter your question, the results page gives a summary of the papers it analyzed. When you click on a source, it shows how the paper answered the question, the key takeaways and the abstract, as well as the quality of the citations. If you ask a yes/no question, Consensus will analyze the results to give you a visual count of the "consensus." This is very useful for when you need to find research on both sides of a topic.