What is Elicit?
Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing findings. It provides access to a vast database of 125 million academic papers, allowing users to search for research papers, ask questions, and get answers.
Features of Elicit
Elicit offers a range of features to speed up research, including:
- Drag-and-drop PDF upload
- Quick summary of papers
- 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
- Unlimited summaries of papers
- Unlimited chat with papers
- Extract data from uploaded PDFs
- Add columns to tables
- View sources for answers
- Import from Zotero
How to Use Elicit
Elicit is designed to be user-friendly, and researchers can use it to:
- Speed up literature review
- Find papers they couldn’t find elsewhere
- Automate systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Learn about a new domain
Pricing of Elicit
Elicit offers three pricing plans:
- Basic: $0/month (for students doing casual exploration)
- Plus: $10/month (for independent researchers doing deeper research)
- Pro: $42/month (for professional researchers doing systematic reviews)
Frequently Asked Questions
How do researchers use Elicit?
Researchers 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 is not a good fit for identifying facts or in theoretical or non-empirical domains.
What types of data can Elicit search over?
Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus, covering all academic disciplines.
How accurate are the answers in Elicit?
Around 90% of the information in Elicit is accurate, but it’s essential to check the work closely.
How can you get in contact with the team?
You can email the team at [email protected] or post in their Slack community.
What happens to papers uploaded to Elicit?
Uploaded papers remain private to the user and are not shared with anyone else.
How accurate is Elicit?
Elicit uses language models to extract data from and summarize research papers. While language models sometimes make up inaccurate answers, Elicit improves accuracy by training models on specific tasks, fine-tuning models on a per-task basis, searching over academic papers, and making it easy to double-check answers.