Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools empower students to discover scholarly research efficiently by analyzing existing articles to identify related works. These tools can sift through extensive databases to uncover connections that traditional library searches might miss. By providing summaries and visualizing citation relationships, AI helps you to better navigate complex academic literature. In fact, NU encourages faculty and students to embrace the innovative use of Artificial Intelligence to enhance the educational experience.
However, when using AI in academic research, please refer to the Student–Faculty Usage Guidelines for Generative AI Tools at NU to facilitate the responsible and ethical use of AI in the classroom.
Also note that the AI tools mentioned are below are not exhaustive and new tools are constantly being developed.
Enter a research article and Connected Papers will build a graph of similar papers in the field. Use the prior works feature to find papers that were most commonly cited by the papers in the graph. Use the derivative works feature to find papers that cited many of the papers in the graph.
Enter a research question or topic, then use the Consensus Meter to assess the level of agreement among identified studies.
Use the Find Papers feature to enter a research question or topic and retrieve a summary of the top four papers related to that inquiry. Scroll down to build a table of extracted article components, including methodology, limitations, theoretical framework, future research, and others.
Inciteful's literature connector tool allows you to enter two papers and it will give you an interactive visualization showing you how they are connected by the literature.
Simply search for your topic and select an article, or start with a specific article, and Litmaps will find other relevant articles based on connection.
Build a collection of papers by searching or uploading and then use the Earlier Work and Later Work features to map related literature.
Add papers to your Library to get a detailed summaries, as well as summarized findings for each of an article's references.
Search for a paper and use the Citations box to identify Highly Influential Citations, Background Citations, Methods Citations, and Results Citations. You can also find connected research using the Related Papers tab.
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