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Rubriq (formerly Curie)

Rubriq is an AI editing and translation tool for academic writing, aimed particularly at researchers whose first language is not English. Springer Nature launched it as Curie in October 2023. Curie used large language models together with editing…

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Scholar Labs

Scholar Labs is an AI-powered search mode in Google Scholar for detailed research questions, announced by Google on 18 November 2025 as an experimental feature for a limited number of logged-in users. Google says it breaks a question…

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ScholarlyTrendSpotter

ScholarlyTrendSpotter is a custom GPT that Laura Harvey built to analyse news, announcements and market changes in scholarly publishing and turn them into strategic insight. She describes it as having knowledge of the sector’s market players and the…

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Sci-Bot

Sci-Bot is an AI chatbot that Sci-Hub launched in April 2026, which answers a question by retrieving papers from Sci-Hub’s database and gives references to those papers, which are free to access through Sci-Hub. The alpha version answers…

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ScienceDirect AI

ScienceDirect AI is a generative AI tool on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, announced on 12 March 2025 and available to purchase for ScienceDirect customers. Ask ScienceDirect AI answers questions asked in the user’s own words with a summary and…

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SciFlow

SciFlow is a web-based writing and publishing platform from SciFlow GmbH in Berlin, used by universities, research institutes and university presses. It formats documents automatically to journal and institutional templates, and its publishing workflow produces theses, journals, books…

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SCiNiTO

SCiNiTO is an AI research workspace from Notion Wave, an applied-research company based in Canada with offices in Toronto, Dubai and Cairo, built on OpenAlex, which the site describes as covering more than 500 million scholarly works. It…

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SciScore

SciScore, from SciCrunch Inc., checks the methods sections of manuscripts for reporting rigour and transparency before peer review, screening against the MDAR, ARRIVE and CONSORT guidelines and flagging issues such as missing RRIDs, blinding, randomisation, power analysis and…

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SciSpace

SciSpace is a research platform operated by PubGenius Inc., which began in 2015 as a research formatting tool and adopted the SciSpace name in 2022. Its about page says it holds metadata for over 200 million papers and…

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Scite Assistant

Scite Assistant is an AI research assistant from Scite that answers research questions with answers grounded in scholarly literature. Research Solutions acquired Scite, a Brooklyn start-up founded in 2018, in November 2023, when Scite Assistant was already part…

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