Elicit also allows users to upload their own PDFs and provides a quick summary of the top papers. It also provides sources for every answer and allows users to ask questions directly to the papers. The tool is trusted by over 2 million researchers and is used to speed up literature review, find papers they couldn’t find elsewhere, automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and learn about a new domain. However, it does not answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper.
Key takeaways:
- Elicit is a tool that automates time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing findings.
- It allows users to search for research papers, get one sentence abstract summaries, select relevant papers, and extract details into an organized table.
- Elicit's users can save up to 5 hours per week, search across 125 million academic papers using natural language, and extract details from papers at 50% of the time and cost of doing it manually.
- Over 2 million researchers have used Elicit for tasks such as speeding up literature review, finding papers they couldn’t find elsewhere, automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and learning about a new domain.