Elicit AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Elicit

Elicit is described as 'GPT-3 powered research assistant. Elicit helps you classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search through publications' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Elicit, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, iPhone, Mac and Windows apps. The best Elicit alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Elicit are Inciteful, ResearchGate, Semantic Scholar and ResearchCollab.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Elicit alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Google Scholar icon
     51 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    29 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Elicit.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Elicit.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietaryElicit is also Free and Proprietary
  2. Inciteful icon
     6 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. ResearchGate icon
     27 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Enables users to upload and share scientific papers, connect with researchers globally, discover and follow research topics, access datasets, send direct messages, participate in discussions, track citation metrics, and explore academic job opportunities.

    35 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Elicit.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietaryElicit is also Free and Proprietary
  4. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    16 Semantic Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    ResearchCollab is a web-based research collaboration platform designed to support individual researchers and teams throughout the research process.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ResearchCollab is the most popular SaaS alternative to Elicit.

    • ResearchCollab is the most popular commercial alternative to Elicit.

    • ResearchCollab is Paid and ProprietaryElicit is Free and Proprietary
    • ResearchCollab is Privacy focusedElicit is not according to our users
  6. Scinapse icon
     13 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Scinapse is a free search engine for academic papers. As of September 2018, it indexes more than 200 million articles from more than 40,000 journals.

    11 Scinapse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Snowball icon
     4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Elicit.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to Elicit.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceElicit is Free and Proprietary
  8. OA.mg icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    13 OA.mg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. RefSeek icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. CiteSeerX icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Shibata icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
12 of 16 Elicit alternatives