Research and Course Guides: BIOL 474: Biology of Global Health: AI Tools for Research

Free-to-Use AI Tools for Research

Consensus This link opens in a new window
An academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. It attempts to surface the most relevant papers using topic-level and paper-level insights. Everything is connected to real research papers.

Elicit This link opens in a new window
Elicit is an AI tool to find 'seed articles' and to mine for keywords/subject headings. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.

Undermind.ai
Advertised as a deep-dive research assistant, Undermind takes an iterative approach to AI research. It starts with and AI chat interview designed to help you refine your research question before performing a deep search of the Semantic Scholar database using your input, trying multiple versions of your search and adapting as it scans results.
NOTE: because of how the search works, results can take 3-5 minutes to come back, and the free version currently restricts how many searches you can run per month and sometimes limits access to citations it returns.

Scopus AI (Spring 2025 TRIAL)

Scopus This link opens in a new window
One of the largest abstract and citation databases of peer-reviewed literature: over 21,500 scientific journals, 130,000 books and conference proceedings, covering all fields of academic study: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Using Scopus AI

Use the link above to access Scopus. Once there, look just above the search box for the Scopus AI search option.

Once in Scopus AI, use natural language to enter a research question. Scopus AI will retrieve the most current, relevant documents from its corpus, analyze and summarize them, and provide links out to the originals.

Web of Science Research Assistant (2025 TRIAL)

Web of Science
A huge collection of leading scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities that provides the ability to search by cited references.

Using Web of Science Research Assistant

Use the link above to access Web of Science. Once there, their AI search tool can be accessed at the very top of the page under the title "Research Assistant."