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AI Tools for Research

A guide to help you understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support your academic research

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-driven search and discovery tool, whose corpus serves as the main corpus for other tools. 

Key features:

  • Access: Free. You can use it even without signing up. 
  • Interface: Beginner friendly. Very simple, easy to use interface.
  • Personalisation: If you create an account, you can organize papers into customized folders and bulk export citations. You can also get alerts and recommendations based on your interests. 
  • Interaction: On an article level, when the article is available with the PDF Semantic Reader, you can ask the AI Assistant questions about the article like questions around methodology, sample sizes etc.

Limitations:

  • Beyond search: Does not provide any summary based on the result or does not extract any data.