UPDATED! Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools for Academic Research: AI Research Assistants, AI-Powered Document Analysis Tools, and A Look at Elicit, Undermind, and NotebookLM

"Comparison of Elicit AI and Traditional Literature Searching in Evidence Syntheses Using Four Case Studies"
Cochrane Evid Synth Methods, 9-27-25

The sensitivity of Elicit was poor, averaging 39.5% compared to 94.5% in the original reviews. Elicit identified some included studies not identified by the original searches & had an average of 41.8% precision which was higher than the 7.55% average of the original reviews.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12483133/

#research #medicine #Elicit #AItools

Mit #KI schneller Literatur finden und zusammenfassen?

Programme für die Systemtic Literature Review wie #Elicit ersparen auf den ersten Blick viel Arbeit. Doch sie reproduzieren Machtdynamiken des Wissenschaftssystems, indem sie englischsprachige Beiträge bevorzugen, schreibt Rebecca Schmidt. Weil das Programm außerdem oft nur auf die Abstracts zugreifen kann, müssen Forschende am Ende ohnehin alle Texte selbst downloaden & lesen 👇

https://sozmethode.hypotheses.org/2943

#SozMethode

"AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research"

This is by far the best survey paper I have seen analyzing how various AI tools support various aspects of scientific research. This work analyzed a vast amount of information compiled in 950 references that were listed in the paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903

They provide an extensive paper list Github repo;
https://ai-4-research.github.io/
and see:
https://github.com/LightChen233/Awesome-AI4Research

#research #AItools #science #chemistry #Elicit

All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by
summarising evidence in mathematics education

https://bsrlm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BSRLM-CP-45-1-10.pdf

from https://bsky.app/profile/honeypisquared.bsky.social/post/3lraakawvqc2a

"We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible."