Elicit

Elicit

An AI-powered research assistant designed to streamline research workflows, discover relevant papers, generate summaries, and extract key data efficiently.

About Elicit

Elicit leverages advanced language models to automate key research tasks, including literature reviews, paper discovery, summarization, and data extraction. It can identify relevant studies even without exact keyword matches, summarize findings tailored to your questions, and extract essential information from papers. Ideal for researchers aiming to accelerate their research process, brainstorm ideas, and analyze scientific evidence efficiently.

How to Use

Simply input your research questions in natural language. Elicit will search, summarize, extract data, and analyze over 125 million papers to provide accurate answers and insights quickly and effectively.

Features

  • Rapid research summaries
  • AI-powered systematic reviews
  • Research report generation
  • Question answering capabilities
  • Quote extraction from sources
  • Upload and analyze PDFs

Use Cases

  • Automating systematic literature reviews
  • Extracting data for meta-analyses
  • Exploring new research domains
  • Accelerating literature review processes

Best For

StudentsScientistsProfessorsAcademic researchersResearch consultantsData analystsResearch teams

Pros

  • Handles complex academic concepts with accuracy
  • Identifies high-impact research opportunities
  • Reduces research time significantly
  • Delivers comprehensive, well-supported answers
  • Provides citations with supporting quotes
  • Analyzes evidence systematically
  • Offers transparent screening criteria

Cons

  • Limited to questions based on academic literature
  • Approximately 90% answer accuracy; verification needed
  • Less effective for purely theoretical or non-empirical topics
  • Language models may occasionally generate inaccurate responses

Pricing Plans

Choose the perfect plan. All plans include 24/7 support.

Basic

Free

Ideal for casual exploration and learning

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Plus

$10/month, billed annually

Suitable for in-depth research activities

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Pro

$42/month, billed annually

Designed for comprehensive systematic reviews

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Team

$65 per user/month, billed annually

Perfect for collaborative research teams

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Enterprise

Custom pricing

Tailored solutions for organizations and educational institutions

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FAQs

How do researchers typically utilize Elicit?
Researchers use Elicit to accelerate literature reviews, find hard-to-locate papers, automate systematic reviews, and learn about new research areas, especially in empirical fields involving experiments.
What are the limitations of Elicit?
Elicit is less effective for questions not related to academic papers or facts outside written research, such as sales figures or purely theoretical topics.
What types of data can Elicit search and extract?
Elicit searches over 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar database, extracting data from full texts or abstracts when available.
How reliable are Elicit's answers?
While generally accurate around 90%, users should verify key information, as the system highlights sources to facilitate fact-checking.
Are uploaded papers kept private?
Yes, any papers uploaded to Elicit remain confidential and are not shared with third parties.