Elicit

Tool Overview

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that automates time-consuming academic literature review tasks including searching for relevant papers, extracting key data points, synthesising findings across studies, and identifying research gaps across hundreds of thousands of academic publications. Unlike general-purpose search engines, Elicit understands research methodology and scholarly conventions — it can extract specific information types such as sample sizes, statistical significance values, intervention types, outcome measures, and demographic characteristics from papers, organising them into sortable tables for systematic comparison. The platform's column-based workflow enables researchers to define custom extraction criteria for comparative analysis across studies, dramatically reducing the weeks of manual effort typically required for comprehensive literature reviews and meta-analyses. Elicit is particularly valued by graduate students, academic researchers, evidence-based policy practitioners, and healthcare professionals who need to stay current with rapidly growing research literatures. The platform integrates with Zotero for reference management and supports team workspaces for collaborative systematic review projects. By automating the screening, extraction, and synthesis phases of research workflows, Elicit enables scholars to focus on critical analysis and interpretation rather than manual data collection from published studies.