Research Guides: Using Generative AI in Research: AI Tools

Experimenting with Use of AI Tools in Research

Generating Research Ideas: Explore topics, identify trends and emerging topics; brainstorm potential research questions, and refine existing research questions. AI tools can provide insights based on your interests and existing literature.
Keyword Suggestions: AI tools can assist you in expanding your keywords and phrases and help refine your focus.
Summarizing & Synthesizing: Highlight key concepts (read the full text to understand the concept) and simplify difficult-to-understand sentences. *Be mindful that important points may be missed.
Feedback & Writing Assistance: Look for improvements in grammar, structure, and readability. AI writing tools can help identify patterns in your writing.

Generative AI for Educators
ITHAKA's Generative AI Product Tracker lists generative AI products that are either marketed specifically towards postsecondary faculty or students or appear to be actively in use by postsecondary faculty or students for teaching, learning, or research activities. The Tracker is a living document, which we update regularly as new products enter the market or new information about existing products becomes available.

Web of Science
Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Look here for scholarly content from more than 22,000 peer-reviewed journals. Key features include the "Citation Network" and Journal Citation Reports (JCR) which measure research influence at the journal and disciplinary levels.
Scopus
Large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Google Scholar
One of Google’s longest-running services, Google Scholar is an academic search engine that searches across scholarly literature, including books, articles, white papers, conference proceedings, and more. Key features include "Cited by" and "Related articles." Utilize the "Advanced search" for better results.
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI.
Lens
Lens ingests, cleans, aggregates, normalizes and serves over 225+ million scholarly works, 127+ million global patent records, and more than 370+ million patent sequences, with rich metadata including the people and institutions that generate this knowledge and the linkages between them, drawn from diverse data sources.
Inciteful
Perhaps less targeted than Connected Papers, Inciteful is the faster of the two tools. Inciteful operates off of a single seed paper.
Connected Papers
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Litmaps
Litmaps shares similarity with Inciteful in that while you can jump start the search with just one seed paper (it will suggest more), it is really designed to work with more than one paper.