Research Guide: Generative AI and Research - Tools

An increasing number of AI tools are available to support different aspects of the research and literature review process, such as generating keyword ideas, providing citation context, summarizing sources, and visualizing connections between them. This guide highlights freely accessible online tools with a clear relevance to research.

As the landscape of GenAI continues to evolve, we will make every effort to keep this table current. Please feel free to contact us with any corrections or questions.

The "Dashboard de herramientas bibliográficas basadas en IA" (in Spanish) could be of interest.

The list is not exhaustive. Tools are presented in alphabetical order.

Table last edited on June 11, 2025

Tool	Features	Data sources	Reference Management	Prompt searching
ResearchAI	Offers text analysis Provides themes suggestions Sentiment score Creates text models	Upload your own datasets	No	No
Claude	Provides answers but without indicating the source You can ask for a specialized bibliography Offers writing tools Generates code	Web search	No	Yes
Consensus	Offers summaries of relevant papers Provides information sources Offers writing tools Citations figures Consensus-meter	200+ million research papers Partner with Semantic Scholar You can upload your papers	Exports to RIS CSV	Yes
Elicit	Discovery tool Provides information sources Summarizes papers Extracts data Synthetize findings Automated systematic reviews	125+ million research papers You can upload your papers	Zotero integration	Yes Ask a paper
Gemini	Provides information sources Allows creation of web creation, infographics, quizzes and audios based on results Collaborative workspace (Canvas) where Gemini acts as an AI teammate Deepsearch allows you to upload your documents and explains the "thinking" process Brainstormer tool Generates code	Web search	Exports to Docs	Yes
Mistral / Le chat	Provides information sources Searches across knowledge bases, documents and tools Offers news from press wires OCR across scans and images	You can upload your papers and datasets Web search	No	Yes
OpenAlex	Offers a dashboard of the world's research ecosystem, linking papers, institutions, journals, license, citation counts, and topics Provides information sources Access to PDF when available Export all your search results. The complete dataset is free under CC0 license, which allows for transparency and reuse Open source code	+250 million scholarly works 250,000 sources - including: Crossref, DataCite, PubMed, HAL, DOAJ, ORCID, MAG, arXiv, RePEc, Zenodo, ISSN	Exports to RIS CSV TXT API available	Yes
Perplexity	Provides information sources Discovery tool Spaces: interactive tools Suggestions on how to expand the search Deep Search allows the creation of reports and details the "thinking" process Free version allows: unlimited basic searches; 3 Pro searches per day; and uploading 3 files per day	Web search Academic: Semantic Scholar ArXiv You can upload your papers	Exports to PDF DOCX	Yes
Research Rabbit	add papers to collections Recommendations Email alerts Visualize networks of papers and co-authorships Collaborate on collections, or help kickstart someone’s search process	You add the initial references	Zotero integration	No
Semantic Scholar	Provides information sources Discovery with simple filtering Citation counting Authors profiles Citing and Referenced Authors Semantic Reader: finds key points of a paper using AI-generated highlighted overlays with 3 category labels: Goal, Method, and Result. Offers citations cards that show details of a cited paper in-line where you’re reading	200+ million research papers	Works well with Zotero	By subject

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