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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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NOTE: Please consult your instructor, department, or school regarding the use of AI tools. This guide is intended solely for educational purposes and does not constitute an endorsement of AI use in academic work.

Literature Search Tools

Research Rabbit

Currently free. 

Research Rabbit is a “citation-based literature mapping tool” that focuses on relationships between research works. It uses visualizations to help researchers find similar papers and other researchers in their field.

To get started, simply add a paper you know and love to a Collection, or search for a paper that’s relevant to your project. By adding a single paper (or even a few papers!) to your collection, you'll unlock:

  • Recommendations on Earlier Work, Later Work, Similar Work.
  • Powerful visualizations of similar work, references, citations.
  • and much more!

For resources to help you get started, see the links below!

 

Connected Papers

Free with paid subscription available

Connected Papers focuses on the relationships between research papers to find similar research. You can also use Connected Papers to:

  • Get a visual overview of a new academic field.
  • Make sure you have not missed an important paper.
  • Create the bibliography for your thesis.
  • Discover the most relevant prior and derivative works.

To get started, enter a paper identifier. You can try a paper DOI, URL, Title, or another identifier. 

How to read the graph: 

  • Each node is an academic paper related to the origin paper.
  • Papers are arranged according to their similarity (this is not a citation tree)
  • Node size is the number of citations
  • Node color is the publishing year
  • Similar papers have strong connecting lines and cluster together

For resources to help you get started, see the links below!

 

Keenious

Free with paid subscription available

Keenious is a recommendation tool for academic articles and topics based on papers you upload AND/OR the text you highlight.

To get started: 

  1. Select your document: Type the article you are looking for in the search box. Keenious has no word limits. You can even paste the entire document. 
  2. Analysis: Keenious uses its AI recommendation engine to analyze your document, understand its content, and compare it to millions of scientific publications to provide you with the most relevant research articles and topics.
  3. Explore the results: Browse through the list of recommended research and apply additional filters to further refine your results.

For resources to help you get started, see the links below!

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