| Uses |
Tool |
|---|---|
|
Translation |
Useful for primary and secondary sources, translate into or out of English for best results ChatGPT: copy and paste text, limited to 4,000 tokens |
| Searching for scholarly articles |
Semantic scholar: use author, title, or DOI for searching; English-language focused; narrow book coverage; patents not included Consensus: use question form for searching; only includes open access empirical/peer-reviewed research; science and social science focused ChatGPT: refines a research question, determines subject terms, and suggests related terms; not suitable for finding actual publications Elicit: Organizes sources by selected variable, summarizes findings, and provides key findings, the depth of the search suggests it might be helpful for systematic reviews/meta-analyses Undermind: refines a research question and matches that question to sources, breaks sources up into categories, and provides a timeline and citation network, the depth of the search suggests it might be helpful for systematic reviews/meta-analyses |
| Citation tracing for literature reviews |
Research Rabbit: only includes articles; sources mostly from academic journals Litmaps: only includes articles |
| Ideation & Keywords |
ChatGPT: create prompts for subtopics, organize/outline a paper, and brainstorm open data sources; request keywords and boolean search strings related to a specific research question; not suitable for producing citations; all content input into ChatGPT becomes useable by OpenAI Elicit: suggests key concepts for topics based on scholarship found in search |
| Comprehension |
Consensus: provides study snapshots with population, sample size, methods, and outcomes; synthesize feature provides summary of all results and offers consensus graph NotebookLM: provides chat bot that answers questions based on uploaded sources; creates study guides, timelines, FAQs, briefing docs, and audio overviews |