Elicit: The AI Research Assistant (original) (raw)

Analyze research papers at superhuman speed

Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.

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Discovery

Search for research papers

Ask a research question and get back a list of relevant papers from our database of 125 million

Get one sentence abstract summaries

Select relevant papers and search for more like them

Extract details from papers into an organized table

Synthesis

Find themes and concepts across many papers

What are all of the effects of this drug? What are all of the datasets that have been used? Get a list of the thing you’re looking for, synthesized from many papers.

“It's rapidly surfaced a lot of interesting things I hadn't found through traditional search engines”

“I use Elicit almost every day for researching medical issues. It gets better and better. It's simply the best tool to stay well informed”

Torben Riise

PhD, Biotechnologist, Consultant, Author

“Quickly becoming my front page for exploring unfamiliar literature. Amazingly powerful way to identify high value seeds I can then mine and explore further.”

Joel Chan

PhD Cognitive Psychology, HCI Professor, Researcher

“It's like JSTOR on 1980s box-office Schwarzenegger steriods”

Marc Watkins

Professor, Published in Inside Higher Education

“Really incredible glimpse into the future of searching science”

Mike Morrison

PhD in Work Psychology

“Think of it as Google Scholar meets ChatGPT. Great example of conversational AI making information more accessible”

Brian McNeill

Entrepreneur, Co-founder of Stringr

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How do you improve resting heart rate?

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Resting heart rate is an important indicator of cardiovascular health and risk. Several studies have found that lowering resting heart rate can have benefits for heart health and longevity (Husmann 2011). Exercise training is one way to achieve a lower resting heart rate. Choe 2015 found that certain video processing techniques can improve the accuracy of measuring resting heart rate. Loimaala 2000 found that 5 months of moderate exercise training lowered resting heart rate, though

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“A meta-analysis of 30 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials concluded that fish oil consumption can significantly reduce heart rate (Mozaffarian 2005). In particular, the effect was greater in people whose baseline heart rate was higher: in the overall pooled estimate, fish oil decreased heart rate by 1.6 bpm compared to placebo, but reduced heart rate by 2.5 bpm in trials with a median baseline heart rate of ≥ 69 bpm. Furthermore, the ability of fish oil to reduce heart rate appeared to depend on the length of treatment.

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What was the effect size in the first trial arm?

The effect size in the first trial arm is a marked reduction in spectral power in the ultra low frequency band for both heart rate variability and EMG when going from active to rest conditions, as well as significant changes in mean heart rate and EMG activity between the active and rest days. Additionally, there was a significant sex-by-activity interaction in the high frequency band of the RR interval power.

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How do researchers use Elicit?

Over 2 million researchers have used Elicit. Researchers commonly use Elicit to:

Elicit tends to work best for empirical domains that involve experiments and concrete results. This type of research is common in biomedicine and machine learning.

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. It tends to work less well for identifying facts (e.g. "How many cars were sold in Malaysia last year?") and in theoretical or non-empirical domains.

What types of data can Elicit search over?

Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from the Semantic Scholarcorpus, which covers all academic disciplines. When you extract data from papers in Elicit, Elicit will use the full text if available or the abstract if not.

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. While we do our best to increase accuracy without skyrocketing costs, it’s very important for you to check the work in Elicit closely. We try to make this easier for you by identifying all of the sources for information generated with language models.

How can you get in contact with the team?

You can email us at [email protected]or post in our Slack community! We log and incorporate all user comments, and will do our best to reply to every inquiry as soon as possible.

What happens to papers uploaded to Elicit?

When you upload papers to analyze in Elicit, those papers will remain private to you and will not be shared with anyone else.

Training our models on specific tasks

We fine-tune our models on a per-task basis and constantly iterate to make them more accurate.

Searching over academic papers

Elicit only shows you papers that actually exist and are part of the scientific literature.

Making it easy to double-check answers

We make it easy for you to view the original source and point to where in a paper specific information came from.