LibGuides: Engineering Subject Guide: AI Tools for Research

AI Tools for Research

New tools are constantly emerging from LLMs (Large Language Models) that use generative AI to produce new analysis, text, or to answer questions. Below I have listed some AI tools that are especially developed to aid with scholarly research. Please note that listing these tools does not imply that I encourage or endorse them.

AI Tools for Summarizing/Analyzing Research Paper Key Points or Editing/Proofreading/Checking References

ChatDOC
Summarize a PDF
Consensus: AI search engine for research
Coral AI
Elicit
Iris AI
Petal AI
Scholarcy
Scispace
Trinka AI from Enago
grammar and language correction, editing, also checks LaTeX

AI Tools for Asking Questions and More!

Chat GPT
the most famous and well known generative AI tool; not specifically intended for academic research
Claude AI
Copilot from Microsoft
Gemini AI from Google
Formerly known as Bard
Paperpal AI
AI tool for academic writing and editing
Perplexity AI
scite_ai

AI Tool Aggregator

Product Hunt
the place to launch and discover new tech tools
There's An AI for That
Top AI Tools
AI tools directory
ITHAKA S&R Generative AI Tracker

Citing AI Guides

AI Tools for Network Analysis/identifying Similar Papers/Researchers

AI Tools for Systematic Reviews

abstrackr
Link to Brown Univeristy tools abstrackr, SRDR, and OpenMeta [Analyst]. Abstrackr helps you upload and organize the results of a literature search for a systematic review. It also makes it possible for your team to screen, organize, and manipulate all of your abstracts in one place.
ASR Review
Covidence
DistillerSR
MAXQDA
Qualitative data analysis with AI integration
Rayyan

AI Tools for Computer Programming Code Review

Devin AI

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Engineering Subject Guide — AI Tools for Research