📚AI Research & Reading — 9 Best Tools

AI tools for academic search, literature review, chatting with PDFs and organizing research notes.

2 tools from China and 7 international tools, Chinese products listed first.

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Quick list: AI Research & Reading

  1. AMiner — AMiner, originating at Tsinghua University, is an academic search and research intelligence platform with huge paper and scholar databases, collaboration netwo…
  2. ReadPaper — ReadPaper is a Chinese platform for finding, reading and managing papers, with inline translation, notes and AI that explains structure and answers detailed qu…
  3. Google NotebookLM — NotebookLM is Google’s research notebook that answers only from the sources you add, with citations, and can turn them into podcast-style Audio Overviews, vide…
  4. Consensus — Consensus is an AI search engine over peer-reviewed research.
  5. Elicit — Elicit is an AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts methods and results into tables and supports systematic reviews.
  6. SciSpace — SciSpace, formerly Typeset, combines literature search, an AI copilot that explains formulas and tables while you read PDFs, literature reviews and academic wr…
  7. Semantic Scholar — Semantic Scholar is a free academic search engine from Ai2 that generates one-sentence TLDR summaries and highlights influential citations to help researchers …
  8. ChatPDF — ChatPDF is one of the original chat-with-PDF tools.
  9. scite — scite’s Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a study, helping you judge reliability, alongside an AI assistant grounde…