Data Sources
Understand what is already known
Elicit is your one-stop shop to search over high-quality scientific sources
Academic papers
Search over 138 million academic papers and conference proceedings
Updates weekly
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Clinical trials
Search over 545,000 trials
registered on clinicaltrials.gov
Upadates instantly
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BYOData
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Workflows
Search lays the foundation for insight
Too much information without insight is a burden. Elicit helps you synthesize the papers you find through many workflows.
Research reports
Generate 10+page literature reviews of the papers you find to summarize all of the evidence that's been published.
Systematic reviews
You can use Elicit search to supplement a search protocol for a systematic review.
What makes Elicit search unique?
Beyond keywords
Elicit uses semantic search to find papers even when they don't overlap in keywords.
Find the best papers even if you don't know all the right keywords in a research area!
Transparent screening criteria
Once you gather all relevant sources in Elicit, you can use screening criteria to winnow down to the most relevant papers.
You can always see why Elicit included or excluded certain papers.
Analyzes up to 1,000 papers at once
Elicit will surface and analyze up to 1,000 papers at once.
No other AI tool achieves this level of scale.
How it works
How does Elicit's AI search work?
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Ask the right question
Asking the right question is half the battle. Elicit helps specify broad research questions and points out ways to clarify your analysis.
Rank all papers in our database by similarity to your query
We then use custom embedding models to find the papers which are most likely to be relevant to your question, including looking at features like citation count and recency.
This means we primarily rank papers by similarity in content or meaning, not keyword frequency.
Deeper review of top 1,000 papers
We take the top 1,000 papers and use LLMs to prioritize further based on relevance to your research question.
Depending on your Elicit plan and workflow, we will then show you anywhere from the top 4 to the top 1,000 most relevant papers.
Natural language screening
You have the option to run custom screening questions over these papers to narrow down further.