Elicit

Elicit is an AI assistant for working with academic literature. It helps you find relevant papers, extract key information, and organize results into structured formats. You can type a question in natural language, review a list of matching studies, and quickly compare findings across sources.

How it works

• Enter a research question or keywords in the search bar.
• Review automatically selected papers with short abstracts.
• Generate concise takeaways and structured data tables.
• Verify sources using links to the original publications.

Pros and limitations

• Saves time on literature search and analysis (up to 5 hours per week).
• Automatically extracts data and produces summaries.
• Available in both free and subscription plans.
• Useful for individual researchers and teams.
• Takes some time to learn the features.
• Best suited to empirical research tasks.
• Results are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate and should be checked against the sources.

Elicit’s key differentiator is natural-language search combined with automated structuring of research results.