Elicit Pro

What is Elicit Pro?

Elicit Pro (or Elicit) is one of the most highly regarded scientific research artificial intelligence platforms on the market. Focused on the workflow of academics, data scientists, laboratories, and university researchers, the tool acts as an advanced research assistant capable of automating complex literature reviews. It searches academic databases containing over 200 million scientific articles to answer technical research questions, extract exact data from multiple PDFs, and create comparative tables of studies on the screen.

How it works

The user types a scientific research question or uploads a pile of PDF files of academic articles of interest. The platform's artificial intelligence reads the texts of the articles in depth (including internal tables of results). Elicit then generates an automated smart table. For each article, it extracts the tested population, sample size (n), methodology applied, administered dosages (in case of medicine), and key findings declared by scientists in a structured way.

Key features

• Systematic Data Extraction: Automatic creation of structured tables based on the texts and results of multiple articles simultaneously.
• AI Literature Synthesizer: Integrated logical summaries that consolidate findings from the key located articles directly and without unnecessary jargon.
• Upload and Analyze Own PDFs: Possibility to upload your own scientific article files saved on your computer for AI analysis.
• Reliable Semantic Search: Search based on the Semantic Scholar database, returning relevant articles with valid and real DOIs.

Available integrations

The platform focuses on the online academic workflow:

• Integration with the Semantic Scholar database (gathering over 200 million papers).
• Export of formatted data to .CSV files and popular citation formats like BibTeX for bibliography managers (Zotero, Mendeley).

Who it is for

• Academic Researchers, Master's, and PhD Students who need to speed up the drafting of their graduation projects and scientific theses without losing crucial data.
• R&D (Research and Development) Professionals in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and social science industries.
• Public Policy and Health Analysts who need to ground recommendations and technical reports on real scientific data.

Pricing

Pros and cons

Pros:

• The data extraction table from multiple PDFs is an extraordinary feature that saves dozens of hours of manual reading.
• Focused purely on factual data, with direct links and citations to the original texts of the articles to prevent hallucinations.
• Excellent cloud processing speed.

Cons:

• The quality of data extraction depends directly on how legible and structured the original PDF publication format is.
• Plans based on monthly AI credits may require recharges if the researcher performs massive audits frequently.

Alternatives to Elicit Pro

The main alternative tools for AI scientific search and mapping are: Consensus Search, scite.ai, Connected Papers, ResearchRabbit, and Google Scholar.