Elicit: The AI Research Assistant

What is Elicit?

Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing findings. It allows users to search for research papers, ask a research question, and get back a list of relevant papers from its database of 125 million papers.

Features

Elicit offers a range of features to speed up research, including:

• Drag and drop PDFs or click to browse
• Upload your own PDFs
• Orient with a quick summary
• 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
• Extract data from papers at 50% of the time and cost of doing it manually

How to Use Elicit

Elicit is designed to be user-friendly and easy to navigate. Here's how to get started:

• Sign up for a free account
• Upload your PDFs or search for papers
• Ask a research question and get back a list of relevant papers
• Extract data from papers and synthesize findings
• Use Elicit's features to speed up your research

Pricing

Elicit offers three pricing plans:

• Basic: For students doing casual exploration, $0/month (free)

• Plus: For independent researchers doing deeper research, $10/month (billed annually)

• Pro: For professional researchers doing systematic reviews, $42/month (billed annually)

Helpful Tips

• Elicit tends to work best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results.
• Elicit does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper.
• Always check the work in Elicit closely, as language models sometimes make up inaccurate answers.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do researchers use Elicit?
  • Researchers commonly 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 does not currently answer questions or surface information that is not written about in an academic paper.
• What types of data can Elicit search over?
  • Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus, which covers all academic disciplines.
• How accurate are the answers in Elicit?
  • A good rule of thumb is to assume that around 90% of the information you see in Elicit is accurate.