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That one website that finds research papers that answer your question

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Ask something like 'does creatine help memory?' and Elicit searches about 138 million papers, summarizes what each study found and lets you chat with the full text, with search and summaries unlimited on the free plan. You need an account, and summaries can drop important caveats, so open the papers before relying on a finding.

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Consensus consensus.app Shows what studies say about a question; 10 AI answers a month Free tierSignup required Link checked Oct 9
Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Free nonprofit paper search with one-line AI summaries FreeSignup optional Link checked Oct 9
Connected Papers connectedpapers.com Graph of papers related to one you already have Free tierSignup optional Link checked Oct 9

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