AI Tools to Help with Research

Are you a PhD student or researcher? Here are some AI tools you can use at various stages of your research:

Academic Writing

• Curie: an AI-powered writing assistant designed specifically for academic papers. It provides intelligent suggestions, improves writing structure, enhances flow, and assists with citations to help you produce high-quality academic content.
• Grammar Check: a grammar checker and language correction AI tool for academic and technical writing; finds errors unique to academic writing that other grammar checker tools may miss.
• Lex: a text editor which helps you neatly store and format documents with simple prompts including references, headers and bulleted lists
• Scrivener: a tool for long writing projects. It helps you fight page fright and writer's block by letting you write text in any order and find its place in the thesis later. It’s helpful in keeping your notes organized.

Research planning

• GanttPRO: A research planning tool to create a timeline, tasks, follow progress and deadlines.

Finding & synthesizing literature

• Semantic Scholar: Get access to 200 million research papers, discover links between topics, get recommendations based on recent searches and generate summaries.
• Scholarcy: AI powered article summarizer which identifies key info like participants, data analysis, main findings and limitations
• Content Mine: enables you to find, download, analyze, and extract knowledge from academic papers
• Elink.io: enables you to save the content from around the web: articles, videos, cloud files, social media posts and share them with peers.
• Elicit: helps you find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers
• Scite: allows researchers to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of citation and discovering supporting and contrasting evidence for each paper
• SciSpace Copilot: a multi-lingual AI tool that helps you comprehend the paper (and the math and tables in it), seek answers to your queries, turn lengthy texts and sections into easy to consume summaries.

Data analysis

• Excel Formula Bot: converts your text instructions into a spreadsheet formula

Citations/Bibliography/Referencing

• Endnote: Researchers waste nearly 2,00,000 hours/year formatting citations! This tool simplifies formatting bibliographies, finding impact of references and full texts.
• Mendeley: creates references, citations, and bibliographies in multiple journal styles

Final thoughts

These tools do not aim to write your thesis or paper, but enable you to optimize your time and resources as you do your research.