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Research
Search engine that answers questions from peer-reviewed papers.
Free$12/mo
scite searches hundreds of millions of scholarly articles and answers questions with citations from the literature. Its distinctive feature is citation context: it shows whether papers that cite a study back it up or contradict it. It runs as a paid service with a free trial.
What it's good for
- Checking if a source still holds up
- Finding citations for a claim
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Elicit
ResearchResearch assistant that finds papers and pulls data out of them.
Free$49/moGemini
Chat assistantsGoogle AI assistant tied into Search, Gmail and Docs.
Free$4.99/moGemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Best free study toolGoogle's source-grounded research notebook, formerly called NotebookLM.
Free