Elicit
Elicit helps researchers find, summarize, and extract data from academic papers.
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About Elicit
What it is
Elicit automates parts of a literature review. It finds papers relevant to a question, extracts specified details from each into a table such as method, sample size and outcome, and summarises across them, turning a set of papers into structured data.
Why it's different
The extraction into a table is the real work saved. Reading forty papers to record one detail from each is the tedious, error-prone part of a review, and having it laid out in a comparable grid is genuinely valuable. It is also easy to check, since every cell links back to its source. It does make mistakes on details, particularly from tables and figures, so extracted values need verifying for anything that matters. It is priced for researchers rather than for casual use.
How people use it
Systematic and scoping reviews. Comparing methods and findings across many studies. Screening a large set of papers down to the relevant ones. Spot-check the extracted column against the papers themselves, because an error in a table of forty rows is far harder to notice than an error in a paragraph.
Step by step
- Ask a research question, not a topic. It searches on the question, so "does X improve Y in adults" returns something useful where "X" returns noise.
- Add the columns you want extracted before screening — method, sample size, outcome — so the table builds itself as you go.
- Screen on abstracts first and only extract from the papers that survive, because extraction is where the time and the cost go.
- Spot-check every extracted column against two or three source papers. It misreads tables and figures, and an error in a grid of forty rows is far harder to notice than one in a paragraph.
- Export the table before you rely on it, so the review survives independently of the tool.
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