What is Elicit?
Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing findings. It allows users to search for research papers, ask a research question, and get back a list of relevant papers from its database of 125 million papers.
Features
Elicit offers a range of features to speed up research, including:
- Drag and drop PDFs or click to browse
- Upload your own PDFs
- Orient with a quick summary
- Ask questions to papers
- Extract details from papers into an organized table
- Synthesize findings across many papers
- Search across 125 million academic papers using natural language
- Extract data from papers at 50% of the time and cost of doing it manually
How to Use Elicit
Elicit is designed to be user-friendly and easy to navigate. Here's how to get started:
- Sign up for a free account
- Upload your PDFs or search for papers
- Ask a research question and get back a list of relevant papers
- Extract data from papers and synthesize findings
- Use Elicit's features to speed up your research
Pricing
Elicit offers three pricing plans:
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Basic: For students doing casual exploration, $0/month (free)
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Plus: For independent researchers doing deeper research, $10/month (billed annually)
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Pro: For professional researchers doing systematic reviews, $42/month (billed annually)
Helpful Tips
- Elicit tends to work best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results.
- Elicit does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper.
- Always check the work in Elicit closely, as language models sometimes make up inaccurate answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do researchers use Elicit?
- Researchers commonly use Elicit to speed up literature review, find papers they couldn’t find elsewhere, automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and learn about a new domain.
- What is Elicit not a good fit for?
- Elicit does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper.
- What types of data can Elicit search over?
- Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus, which covers all academic disciplines.
- How accurate are the answers in Elicit?
- A good rule of thumb is to assume that around 90% of the information you see in Elicit is accurate.
