AI research tools are used in academia, policy, market research, and R and D.
AI research tools are software platforms that use AI to help you find, read, organize, analyze, and write about research faster.
- Discover papers from a question or claim (not just keywords)
- Summarize papers, extract key findings, methods, limitations
- Compare studies (agreement/disagreement) and map the literature
- Answer questions with citations to sources
- Manage references (citation suggestions, PDFs, metadata cleanup)
- Draft writing (outlines, related-work sections, paraphrasing) and improve clarity
- Analyze data/code (assist with stats, Python/R, figure generation)
- Track trends (new papers, influential authors, citation networks)
Common categories
- Literature search and Q/A with sources
- Paper mapping / citation network exploration
- “Is this claim supported?” / citation context
- PDF reading, summarizing, extraction
- Reference management and writing workflow
- Data, coding, and analysis assistants