Browser Plugins

Perplexity

Perplexity AI is an innovative search engine that functions as a chatbot, allowing users to ask questions in natural language. Unlike traditional search engines, it summarizes search results and provides text with inline citations instead of a ranked list of links. Users can target searches to academic articles, upload various file types including images, save information in a personal library, and use personalized prompts for collections. The platform offers a browser add-on for summarizing web pages or entire domains and allows users to set up personal profiles. Importantly, personal information remains private unless explicitly shared by the user.

Scispace

This AI-powered research assistant tool aids in locating, analyzing, and expanding the scope of academic research. It offers explanations of text, statistics, and tables in scientific literature, providing background on relevant concepts, theories, and methods. Key features include a chat function for immediate answers about article content, text highlighting for summaries and explanations, cross-checking of tables and equations, and a searchable article database. The tool offers a browser add-on and allows users to upload articles to a personal library. It also includes a notebook feature for saving and editing texts from various sources, including the tool's copilot-generated content. Premium users can work in split-screen mode, viewing the notebook alongside the article for enhanced productivity.

Scite

Scite is a versatile research tool that initially focused on characterizing citation sentiment as neutral, supporting, or opposing. It has since evolved into a comprehensive platform for literature review and includes a chatbot for text assistance. The tool offers a free browser add-on that provides citation counts, sentiment analysis, and retraction information for articles across the internet. Additionally, Scite features a Zotero plugin and a reference quality checker for articles.