Best 7 AI Tools for Researchers in 2025: Boost Your Academic Workflow20 min read

In this article, I introduce 7 powerful AI tools that can dramatically accelerate your research workflow. From literature searches to summarization and writing assistance, AI technologies are transforming how researchers work in 2025.

Today, a wide range of AI tools designed specifically for researchers is emerging, helping scholars save time and improve productivity.

＼If there is a tool that interests you, click on it and go to it.

SciSpace

Recommended as a daily partner for researchers

SciSpace is one of the most researcher-focused all-in-one platforms available today.

Various functions from searching to reading are included.

Latest paper retrieval in February 2025(Deep Review)in July.Agent functionSciSpace is a bionic entity in research AI that is constantly evolving with the launch of

As a SciSpace with a variety of functions, we particularly recommend it for the following three reasons.

Why SciSpace is recommended 1: Search for the latest papers (Deep Review)

The accuracy of article searches has exploded with the debut of Deep Review.

What it does,

These processes produce a very high accuracy thesis review.

Deep Review is described in detail in another article.

Reason for recommending SciSpace 2: AI paper reading support

SciSpaces reading support is one of the most useful features.

As you read through the paper, you can resolve various questions in the chat space on the right.

If you don't understand what it says, you can drag it out and it will summarize or translate it for you.

Moreover,Formulas and chartsThey also provide a quick explanation of the

Reason for recommending SciSpace 3: Extract data from papers and create tables

Creating a table by extracting "Results" and "Methods" from a paper is useful for comparing related papers.

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Other SciSpace features include

The biggest attraction is that SciSpace alone offers all kinds of functions.

SciSpace Pricing Plans

Easy Rate Plan Comparison

	Free Plan	Premium Plan	Advanced Plan
Charge	–	$7.2/month～	$42/month～
Article Search	△ Low quality and limited number of times	○ High quality, unlimited
Thesis Reading	△ Low quality and limited number of times	〇 High quality, unlimited
AI Writer	△ Low quality and limited number of times	○ High quality, unlimited
Deep Review	×		○ limitless

Paid plan fees

You can choose between an annual or monthly contract, but clearly the annual contract offers the best value.

plan	contract type	monthly amount (sum) (before discount → after discount)	promo code
Premium plan	year (period of)	$12/month → $7.2/month (Approx. 1,100 yen/month)	ATSAID40 (40% OFF)
	(during) month	$20/month → $16/month (about 2,400 yen)/ month）	ATSAID20 (20% OFF)
Advanced plan	year (period of)	$70/month → $42/month (about 6,300 yen)/ month）	ATSAID40 (40% OFF)
	(during) month	$90/month → $72/month (about 11,000 yen)/ month）	ATSAID20 (20% OFF)

Promo codes can only be used for first time pay-as-you-go customers. For example, the above code cannot be used to upgrade from a Premium plan to an Advanced plan.

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Paperguide

Recommended as a daily partner for researchers

A tool that has been rapidly gaining market share recently is thePaperguideIt is.

Considerably more than SciSpace.low priceto use almost the same functionality.

The focus on AI writers also differentiates us from SciSpace!

Reason for recommending Paperguide 1: Highly accurate article search (including Deep research)

Paperguidecovers not only writer functions, but also article search and reading support.

Paperguide offers three types of article searches

AI Search	Literature Review	Deep Research
For an overview	When you want to find a paper	When you want to find a paper and create a detailed review based on the paper

Deep Research first optimizes the keywords in the chat.

(This is the same as SciSpace.)

After the chat, the research questions are pretty well formulated.

Before	After (AI generated by chat)
How effective is aerobic exercise twice a week in preventing depression?	Moderate jogging in adults 18 years of age and oldertwice a week.(30 minutes per session)To be implemented,Depression based on self-administered depressive symptom scores (e.g., PHQ-9)How effective is it in prevention?(Randomized controlled trials will be the main focus, but observational studies will also be included.)

In addition, there is a Controlled Deep Research mode, which allows users to add, modify, and delete in the following ways

A 👇 detailed review will be completed.

For other searches...

For Research Question,AI Search for an overview。

For Research Question,Literature Review is the place to find articles.。

Paperguide's Recommendation #2: Work as a paper AI writer

By entering a prompt, the system will automatically generate the headline first.

After confirming and revising the direction of the headline and finalizing it, the next step is the body.

After that, AI writing will allow you to write more and more as follows

Writing speed is greatly increased!

Reason for recommending Paperguide 3: Even reading support is covered.All-in-one tool

I can extract the information I need with one click, with the paper by my side,

Charts also provide explanatory functions for other unknown words.

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Although it has just been launched and is not well known in Japan, we feel that it is a very good research all-in-one tool and less expensive than others!

Paperguide Price Plans

Difference in fee plans

PaperguideのThere is no difference in AI quality between free and paid plans.

However, the free plan has a limit on the number of times you can use it, so upgrade to a paid plan when your frequency of use increases.

Easy Rate Plan Comparison

	Free Plan	Plus Plan	Pro Plan
Charge	–	$7.2/month～	$42/month～
AI Output	△ 5 times/month	○ limitless
Deep Research	△ 2 times/month	〇 10 times/month	◎ 50 times/month

If you feel that you want to use more, you can start with the Plus plan.

Paid plan fees

plan	contract type	monthly amount (sum) (before discount → after discount)	promo code
Plus plan	year (period of)	$12/month → $9.6/month (Approx. 1,100 yen/month)	ACADEMIA20 (2)0% off)
	(during) month	$19/month → $15.2/month (about 2,400 yen)/ month）
Pro plan	year (period of)	$24/month → $19.2/month (about 6,300 yen)/ month）
	(during) month	$39/month → $31.2/month (about 11,000 yen)/ month）

Students receive a student discount, 40% off (cannot be combined with coupons)

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Elicit

Recommended when you want to search for papers with high accuracy.

Elicits search accuracy has been further enhanced with a recent renewal.

Reason for recommending Elicit 1: Highly complete systematic review

In a nutshell, Elicit's systematic reviews are the main steps of a systematic review.AI fully automated, but with the ability for humans to adjust each step.It is.

What kind of report will be completed...

Frankly, the performance far exceeded our expectations.

Although "systematic reviews" is only available with the paid Pro plan, it is the best of what Elicit has to offer.

Reason for recommending Elicit 2: Concept Classification

A search method called "list of concept" that categorizes concepts,When you want to get comprehensive informationThe company will play an active role in the

What exactly did we do in the above chart...

They even provide a summary citing the top papers for each concept.

This is very useful when you are exploring a new field, writing a review article, or in any other situation where you want to collect comprehensive information.

Reason for recommending Elicit 3: Highly accurate article search

Reason for recommending Elicit 4: Extract and list data from papers

This feature, which is also available in Scispace, allows you to extract elements from multiple papers and list them in this way.

Elicit Pricing Plans

Differences by rate plan

Although the free plan allows unlimited searches, it does not allow you to enjoy the best of Elicit in terms of the number of articles from which data can be extracted, the small number of columns in the list of search results, and the unavailability of the high precision mode.

	free	Plus	Pro
Article Search	limitless	limitless	limitless
systematic reviews
data extraction	20/until the end of the month	50 items/ month	200 cases/ month
To the list Adding columns	all at oncetwo rows	all at once5 columns	all at once20 columns
High-precision mode		By Listing１up to a row	limitless
Chat with Papers	all at oncefourPapers and unlimited	all at onceeightand papers of thelimitless	all at onceeightand papers of thelimitless
CSV/BIB/RIS export

It may be difficult to understand from this table alone, so for more information, please contact us.Elicit Commentary ArticleTo.

Paid plan fees

	Recommendation annual contract	Monthly Contract
Plus Plan	10 USD/month （120$.(/year)	12Dollars/month
Pro Plan	41.6 USD/month ($499/year)	49 USD/month

Previously, you had to sign up for a paid plan to continue using the service.

However, the rate plan was recently modified,Free plans are now available with restrictions.！

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consensus

Recommended when you want to search for papers with high accuracy.
Recommended for a general overview of previous research.

consensusto handle only peer-reviewed papers,ElicitIt is useful when you want to search for articles with a high degree of accuracy as well.

Consensus is recommended for the following reasons

Reason for recommending Consensus 1: Highly accurate article search

First, enter the Question you wish to search for on the top screen.

consensusThe recommended search method is specified in this way in the following section.

Consensus's search results screen is very easy to read, with a wide variety of labels and other information.

Reason #2 for recommending Consensus:Ability to aggregate results (Consensus Meter)

consensusSpeaking of features of,Ability to aggregate results (Consensus Meter)It is.

If you enter a question that can be answered with Yes/No, it will show you what views exist in previous studies, divided into Yes, No, and Possibly, as a percentage.

This is the upper left corner of the screen.Synthesize is turned onto be available, and the free plan has a limited number of times.

Consensus Rate Plans

With a paid plan, you can use unlimited functions for summarizing papers (Summary) and tabulating results (Consensus Meter), use bookmarks, and so on.

Students,3 months free for Premium PlanAvailable at

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Connected Papers

Recommended when you want to find related papers.(2)
Visualization.

Why we recommend Connected papers: Visualization of related papers

First, upload your paper from the top page.

It provides a visualization of the original paper and other related papers.

The distance between the circles represents the depth of the relationship and the size of the circle represents the number of citations.

You can also list and view the details.

Connected papers pricing plans

744.5 yen as of 5/2024. Incidentally, as of January 2024, the annual plan was just under 700 yen/month, which seems to fluctuate with the exchange rate.

Please check rates as needed.

It is free to create up to 5 graphs per month, so please try it out!

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Note: If you want to search in a narrow topic or field, you can use Research Rabbit or Connected papers instead.PubMeds "Similar articles" feature may be more suitable. Please try it!

Research Rabbit

Recommended when you want to find related papers.
Visualization.

Why Research Rabbit: Visualization of relevant papers

First, upload your paper from the top page.

I also like the fact that it works with Zotero.

Related papers are visualized around the original paper.

If you find a paper that interests you, you can click on it and explore it in more depth.

You can also narrow your search by similar articles, references, citations, authors, etc.

You can also arrange those related papers in chronological order.

Research Rabbit Pricing Plans

And as of nowtotally freeAvailable at

We are asking for donations so that we can continue to provide this service free of charge.

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Scisummary

Reading AI specialized for scientific literature
When you want to increase the amount of reading for your paperRecommended for

Reason for recommending Scisummary 1: Specialized summary for scientific papers

The resulting content is very readable.

Reason for recommending Scisummary 2: No need to go through a browser.

This is quite a nice touch, but the requested summary is automatically sent to your registered email address as well.

You can also email the PDF file you want to read.

It appears that a feature was added in 2024/5 that even summarizes the figures and tables! We will explain the additional features at a later date!

Scisummary Price Plans

Paid only, but within ¥500/month for an annual contract.

Recommendation annual contract	Monthly Contract
2.92 USD/month （34.99 $ 34.99 $ 34.99(/year)	6.99/month

Try the 7-day free trial first.

With similar PDF reading toolsChatPDFis also well known, but Scisummary is more specialized in scientific literature.aimed at researchersIt is.

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Research AI Tool Usage Flow

The recommended use of these research tools is shown in the figure.

If you find a tool that interests you, please try it.

Click backspace to go to the official website/

Using AIArticle SearchWhat you can do with

Now that we have introduced the various tools, let us summarize the advantages of using these tools.

Even if the keywords are not an exact match, it will find papers based on the searcher's intent.

As is often the case with traditional literature search sites, different keyword choices for synonymous terms can yield different search results.

Example: CO2 and carbon dioxide

The AI understands these synonyms and finds the appropriate article for the searcher's intent.

They can cite papers to explain their questions.

The AI will provide its own answers to your questions, citing key papers.

It provides summaries and other information about the papers found in the search.

You don't have to bother to read the abstract of the paper; you can easily tell whether you want the paper or not.

They tally the results.

AI ToolsConsensus."This is a unique feature of

For questions that can be answered with a Yes or No answer, it gives a percentage of what views are more common in the top papers.

Elements can be extracted from multiple papers and compared side-by-side

This function is very useful when you want to compare the contents of related papers comprehensively.

It finds related papers and visualizes their relevance.

You can find related papers and check for missing references when writing your paper.

Using AIThesis ReadingWhat you can do with

It instantly summarizes the content.

They summarize it in a flash in easy-to-understand Japanese.

Chat function can be used to resolve questions.

The chatbot will answer a variety of questions about unclear terms, methods, and considerations.

It explains the formulas and figures in the paper.

Select a formula or chart, and the chatbot will explain it to you!

Tools introduced in this issue

Click backspace to go to the appropriate tool/

Increase the efficiency of your research by making effective use of state-of-the-art AI tools!