Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps scientists and researchers find, analyze, and synthesize evidence from academic literature. It searches over 138 million papers and 545,000 clinical trials, using semantic search to surface relevant results even without exact keywords. Users can generate automated research reports with sentence-level citations, conduct systematic literature reviews with up to 80% time savings, and organize sources in a personal library.
Key Features
- Search: Semantic search across millions of papers and clinical trials.
- Research Reports: Generate customizable briefs with AI, backed by citations.
- Systematic Literature Review: Automate screening and data extraction for comprehensive reviews.
- Library & Alerts: Organize sources and monitor new research in your field.
How It Works
Elicit goes beyond chat to provide interactive tables and multi-step workflows. It analyzes up to 1,000 papers and 20,000 data points at once, delivering transparent results with sentence-level citations. Researchers report significant time savings, especially in systematic reviews where screening and extraction are partially automated.
Key Benefits
- Scales to analyze up to 1,000 papers and 20,000 data points
- Validated high accuracy (99.4% data extraction in case studies)
- Transparent AI with sentence-level citations
- Reported 80% time savings for systematic reviews