Dr. Mohammad Nasir

Professor cum University Librarian, Dept. of Library & Information Science, Kalinga University, Raipur

AI in Academic Research: An Overview of Selected Tools and Applications

In the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) has shown to be a disruptive force that affects not just industry but also academic study. This advancement in technology combined with the continuous progress of data. AI has simplified the research process and learning have by making the teaching process easier for students and scholars. Nowadays all the AI tools are providing lots of articles and others materials to students and scholars for their research. There are many articles available on the internet, which article is to choose from a big challenge. AI can be used to solve this problem. Which saves the time of research scholars and they can work better on their writing. Gathering information from various sources and paraphrasing it to gone up with original idea is an important aspect of good academic writing. AI techniques are also useful tools for writing scholarly works. Their purpose is to detect mistakes that are overlooked by other grammar checkers, like problems with subject-verb agreement, syntax, word choice, pronoun usage, spelling, and articles.

Ideally, a multitude of digital platforms exist today that make effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to find papers, books, proceedings, and editorial comments in any field of research.

Top AI Tools to help your Academic Research

Google Scholar:

Google Scholar is a free web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature in a variety of publishing formats and disciplines. Google Scholar makes it easy to conduct a broad search for scholarly literature. From a single location, users may search across multiple disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court judgments from academic publishers, professional associations, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Google Scholar can help users identify relevant content from all throughout the world of scholarly research.

Consensus:

Consensus is an academic smart search
engine platform that uses AI to find insights in research paper. It synthesize
both topic level and paper level insights those are connected through actual
research papers. Consensus is provide so many functionalities like, Advance
search capabilities, Semantic Search, Personalization, Integration with
academic databases, visualization and summaries, Ethical Consideration, etc. In
order facilitate and speed up knowledge discovery and creativity, consensus
might greatly simplify the research process by providing researchers with
sophisticated search tools and perspectives.

Source: https://consensus.app/

PDFgear
Copilot:

PDFgear Copilot is an AI-powered
tool, that can work with PDFs to do a range of activities, including, convertion,
compression, summarize, and making suitable points from it. This workflow is
based on the Natural Language Processing (NLP). The user have to type
instruction in simple language to getting result from the PDFgear and the
programme will comprehend and persist the result.

Source: https://www.pdfgear.com/pdf-copilot/

SCITE
– AI

Scite is an application for
discovering and evaluating scientific articles via smart citation. Smart
Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the
context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides
supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited statement.

Source: https://scite.ai/assistant

Scispace:

Scispace
is the easiest way to find, understand, and learn any research paper. On a
single search it provide the all related research paper of specific area in one
place. The Scispace has repository of “200 million papers and more than 50
million of open access full-text pdfs”. This initiative by Scispace is for
simplify research discovery and learning. The citation generator facility also
facilitate by Scispace. It provide the different citation for different
documents like, Webpage, Journal Article, Book, Book Chapter, Conference
Proceeding, Patent, Report, and Thesis. Paraphrase and AI detector of the
respective document can be possible with this tool and it can use as extension
with web browsers.

Source:https://typeset.io/

Trinka:

Trinka
is a next generation AI assistant tool for grammar correction and language
enhancement. This tool is useful for researcher, academic writer as a writing
assistant. Trinka correct contextual spelling mistakes and advanced grammar
errors by providing writing suggestions.

Source:
https://www.trinka.ai/grammar-checker

Elicit:

The Elicit AI tool is models to help researcher to automate
the research workflow. The suitability of Elicit is can find relevant papers
without perfect keyword match and summarize it and extract key information from
papers. The Elicit is deal on the relevant papers of 125 million from the
database. It provide the one sentence abstract summaries, select and search the
relevant papers only, extract details from papers into an organized table. This
tool is speed up the literature review of particular research, Automate
systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Source: https://elicit.com/welcome

Scholarcy:

Scholarcy
is basically a summarization tool. Its generate for accurate and reliable
article summaries. It summarises the whole paper with references. Scholarcy
suggest the background reading list to helping researcher get up speed.
Scholarcy also highlights terms and abbreviations for referring a while at the
time of reading. Scholarcy can easily locate and download entire bibliographic
records of the open access papers from Google Scholar, arXiv, etc and easily
import into the reference management tool.

Source: https://library.scholarcy.com/try

Tableau:

Tableau AI simplifies data analysis and facilitates the
utilization of discoveries at scale through the incorporation of reliable
generative AI. It also a visual analytics platform that has transformed how
user use data to solve issues and enabling individuals and organizations to
fully utilize their data.

Source: https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/solutions/ai-analytics

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is free AI powered research tool for
scientific literature. It also worked as academic search engine for retrieve
scientific literature. Semantic Scholar simplifies scientific literature into a
single statements. It aims to make it easier for scholars and researchers to
locate appropriate articles by comprehending the content of the papers and
offering helpful insights. Semantic Scholar evaluates and organizes research
publications according to their significance and importance by analyzing the
entire text of the papers, retrieving important information like citations,
references, and figures, and then using machine learning algorithms.

Source: https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Mendeley:

Mendeley is an academic social network and reference manager
that can find the most recent research, collaborating with others online, and
organizing the researcher own study. Research papers, articles, and other
documents can be managed and organized by users using Mendeley. For simpler
classification and retrieval, users can add tags, build libraries, and arrange
references into specific folders. Mendeley assists users in creating
bibliographies and citations for their research papers and projects in a
variety of citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.). Its integration with word
processing programs, such as Microsoft Word and LaTeX, makes citation insertion
simple.

Source: https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true

Zotero:

Zotero is an open-source, easy to use reference management
application that acts as users own research assistant, collecting, organizing,
citing, and sharing research sources. Zotero combines the best features of more
recent software and web applications, like sophisticated organization, tagging,
and search, with the best features. Zotero operates efficiently with online
resources. It can automatically extract and preserve complete bibliographic
record when it detects that users are viewing a book, article, or other online
object. Zotero offers resources for creating bibliographies and citations in a
variety of citation formats, such as Chicago, MLA, APA, and more. It may be
integrated with word processing programs such as Google Docs, LibreOffice, and
Microsoft Word, so users can add bibliographies and citations right into their
writing.

Source: https://www.zotero.org/

Conclusion:

Using the AI Tools I found in the creativity world enhance
our learning ability. Today it is playing the role of a game changing in every
field. Therefore research scholars should also use it to improve themselves. AI
is capable of providing all the information related to the research to the
research scholars in a short time. Thereby saving their time and money and
providing cost effective facility AI have a vital role. The Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is a crucial productivity tool that significantly
revolutionizes academic writing and research in many disciplines. These include
research design and idea generation, creation of content and organizing,
handling and analyzing data, literature review and synthesis, editing, review,
and publishing support, as well as outreach, interactions, and ethical
compliance. AI revolutionizes research design and idea generation by optimizing
methods and offering insightful information. It improves content quality by
offering writing support and analyzing responsive manners. Artificial
intelligence’s capacity to handle massive data sets guarantees thorough
analysis and integrity in literature reviews and data management respectively.
AI also facilitates ethical research dissemination compliance and speeds up the
writing and publication process.

References

·       Assistant by scite – Your
AI-Powered Research Partner.
(n.d.). scite.ai.  https://scite.ai/assistant?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand&utm_term=scite%20ai&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsdT068vVhQMVxKlmAh0PGAVUEAAYASAAEgK8IfD_BwE

·      
Consensus:
AI search engine for research.
(2024, March 3). Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research. https://consensus.app/

·      
Elicit:
the AI Research Assistant.
(n.d.). https://elicit.com/welcome

·       kssNvYB7y66y. (2024, February 22). Discover
Scholarcy Features – Try it now! Scholarcy | the Long-form Article
Summariser. https://www.scholarcy.com/scholarcy-features/#:~:text=Scholarcy’s%20unique%20Robo%2DHighlighter%E2%84%A2,important%20point%20is%20being%20made.

·       Mendeley – Reference Management
Software.
(n.d.). Mendeley.com. https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true 

·      
PDFGear
Copilot: Windows Copilot, but for PDF.
(n.d.). https://www.pdfgear.com/pdf-copilot/

·      
SciSpace- Auto-format your paper to any journal in a click. (n.d.). https://typeset.io/t/about/

·       Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered
Research Tool.
(n.d.). https://www.semanticscholar.org/

·       Trinka AI. (2023, February 10). Free
Grammar Checker – Best AI Writing Assistant. https://www.trinka.ai/grammar-checker

·      
Zotero | Your personal research assistant. (n.d.). https://www.zotero.org/