awesome-ai-research-tools
github.com/0x11c11e/awesome-ai-research-tools ↗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.
Use this list with your AI agent
Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me literature review & discovery resources from awesome-ai-research-tools"
Installation instructions →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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