Research assistants

Elsevier’s LeapSpace is a fee-based AI-assisted researcher workspace combining generative AI with Elsevier’s curated content to help researchers brainstorm, review literature, compare studies and find funding — “move from curiosity to discovery faster”, per the launch material. Announced…

moara.io structures literature reviews around guided workflows and librarian-led best practice, with collaboration and AI-powered insights on top. Video: https://youtu.be/88QkMNdy6Ro

A reader- and researcher-facing AI tool that supports literature navigation, summarization, and scientific writing support through generative AI.

Key capabilities:Accelerates literature discovery and finding relevant sourcesSupports reading and comprehension (faster understanding of papers)Provides writing support via “Manuscript Adviser” style guidance for original research manuscriptsContent + trust model:Built on a large peer-reviewed academic corpus (multi-publisher, including Springer…

The Oxford Academic AI Discovery Assistant is an AI-powered search tool integrated into the Oxford Academic platform. It enhances the research experience by providing intuitive search capabilities, delivering highly relevant results accompanied by AI-generated summaries.

PICO Portal is a web-based tool designed to facilitate collaborative knowledge synthesis in biomedical research. It employs machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to refine the screening process by analyzing decisions made by review teams. The platform…

Preprint Watch is an AI-powered platform designed to analyze newly posted scientific preprints in real-time. It classifies research based on its epistemic role—such as reinforcing existing models, indicating anomalies, or proposing paradigm shifts—rather than relying on traditional metrics…

Primo Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered tool designed to streamline time-intensive tasks. It enables users to query academic content in natural language and utilizes the breadth of your library to pinpoint five articles that can aid in…

Using trusted Sage content, the Sage Research Methods AI Tutor answers all your methods questions, helping you understand complex concepts and linking them to reliable resources on the Sage Research Methods platform for further learning.

Google Scholar Labs, unveiled 18 November 2025, is Google Scholar’s AI-powered search for detailed research questions. It returns a short, curated list of papers with an AI-generated structured summary of how each paper addresses the query — no…

Sci-Hub — the shadow library courts treat as copyright-infringing — launched its own AI research assistant. Reviews are mixed: Sci-Hub’s shrinking access to paywalled literature limits the tool’s value.

ScienceDirect AI is a generative AI tool integrated into Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, designed to assist researchers by providing instant summaries, comparisons, and insights from a vast corpus of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. It includes features like “Ask…

SCiNiTO is an AI-powered research platform designed to enhance scholarly workflows by offering discovery, collaboration, manuscript review, and journal recommendation tools. It integrates OpenAlex data (over 260M records) and AI agents to support literature search, content summarization, and…

SciSpace is an AI-powered research platform designed to streamline the academic research process. It offers tools for discovering, understanding, and writing research papers, including features like semantic search, AI-assisted literature reviews, and PDF interaction.

Scite Assistant is an AI-powered research assistant that combines large language models with a vast database of citation contexts to provide evidence-backed answers to research questions. Unlike traditional AI chatbots, Scite Assistant grounds its responses in actual scientific…