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A curated list of AI tools specifically designed to assist in research activities, including tools for literature reviews, citation management, data analysis, and more. This repository is intended for researchers, students, and professionals who want to leverage AI to enhance their research workflows.

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Literature Review & DiscoveryResearch AgentsReading & Paper Q&ACitation & Reference ManagementCitation Networks & VisualizationWriting & EditingData Analysis & NotebooksTranscription & MultimodalOpen Datasets & APIsNotes & Knowledge ManagementResources & TrackersContributing

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What's inside

Literature Review & Discovery

  • 2Dsearch

    Visual canvas-based Boolean query builder for systematic search.

  • Ai2 Asta

    Allen AI's agentic ecosystem for scholarly Q&A and evidence-grounded literature synthesis.

  • ASReview

    Open-source AI-assisted screening for systematic reviews.

  • Consensus

    Search engine that extracts consensus answers directly from research papers.

  • Dimensions

    Scholarly research analytics database covering 164M+ publications.

  • Elicit

    AI research assistant that automates literature review, summarization, and data extraction.

Reading & Paper Q&A

  • Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant

    In-PDF chat, summaries, and citation tracing inside Acrobat.

  • Anara

    AI workspace for PDFs and lectures with source-linked citations (formerly Unriddle).

  • AskYourPDF

    Chat with PDFs, with ChatGPT and Zotero integrations.

  • ChatPDF

    Chat with PDFs and other documents, with summary and writing add-ons.

  • docAnalyzer

    Multi-PDF question answering with cross-document comparison.

  • Explainpaper

    Highlight passages of a paper to get plain-language AI explanations.

Research Agents

  • arXiv MCP Server

    MCP server giving LLM clients arXiv search, paper download/read, and Semantic Scholar citation lookups.

  • BGPT

    REST/Python and MCP scientific-paper search returning structured full-text evidence: methods, limitations, conflicts of interest, and quality scores.

  • Edison Kosmos

    Multi-agent platform (ex-FutureHouse) running parallel research tasks across literature and datasets.

  • Iris.ai

    Enterprise agentic RAG platform for ingesting and analyzing scientific documents.

  • Lune

    MCP server giving agents grounded knowledge and tools for scientific workflows, sourced from research papers.

  • PaperQA2

    Open-source RAG agent for high-accuracy Q&A over scientific PDFs with grounded citations.

Transcription & Multimodal

  • AssemblyAI

    Speech-to-text API with diarization, multilingual transcription, and audio understanding.

  • Deepgram

    Speech-to-text and voice AI APIs including the multilingual Flux conversational model.

  • Mathpix

    OCR for math, chemistry, tables, and handwriting; converts PDFs to LaTeX, Markdown, and DOCX.

  • Otter.ai

    Real-time meeting transcription with speaker recognition and chat over transcripts.

  • tl;dv

    Auto-joining notetaker for Zoom, Meet, and Teams with summaries in 30+ languages.

  • Transkriptor

    AI audio/video transcription in 100+ languages.

Writing & Editing

  • CAJAL

    Local fine-tuned LLM (Qwen-based) for drafting IMRaD manuscripts offline, with arXiv/CrossRef citation validation.

  • Jenni AI

    Academic writing assistant with autocomplete grounded in your imported papers and built-in citation generation.

  • Kvire

    AI peer-reviewer for academic drafts that flags logical fallacies, hedging, and missing citations with corpus-backed evidence.

  • Lex

    AI-assisted document editor for collaborative writing with grounded suggestions and editing commands.

  • PaperClaw

    VS Code extension that drafts IMRaD manuscripts locally via Ollama with Semantic Scholar–cross-referenced citations and LaTeX export.

  • Prism

    Free AI-native LaTeX workspace for scientific writing, collaboration, literature search, and citation support.

Citation Networks & Visualization

  • Carrot Search

    Text clustering and visualization tools (Lingo, FoamTree) for organizing search results.

  • Citation Gecko

    Citation-network seed-paper exploration for finding related work.

  • CitNetExplorer

    Leiden University citation-network analysis software.

  • Connected Papers

    Visual graph of related academic papers from a seed paper.

  • Inciteful

    Citation-graph exploration that surfaces key papers in any topic from a seed paper or query.

  • Lens.org

    Integrated search and visualization across 200M+ scholarly works and global patent data.

Citation & Reference Management

  • ChatAcademia

    Multi-database academic search agent across arXiv, PubMed, and Scholar with citation tools.

  • Citely

    AI citation checker and academic source finder for verifying references and claims.

  • CiteMe

    AI citation generator searching 8+ databases (OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar) in 40+ styles, with Word/Docs add-ins.

  • Paperpile

    Reference manager with native Google Docs and Word integration.

  • Sourcely

    Paste text and find supporting academic sources, exporting in APA/MLA/Chicago/IEEE.

  • Zotero

    Open-source reference manager with web, desktop, and mobile clients.

Open Datasets & APIs

  • CORE

    World's largest open-access full-text corpus (449M papers) with search UI, API, and bulk datasets.

  • OpenAlex

    Free open scholarly index of 313M+ works with a fully open JSON API.

  • Semantic Scholar API

    Free academic-graph API covering 234M+ papers, citations, authors, and SPECTER2 embeddings.

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