Assistant by scite

AI tool that helps find research-backed evidence, analyses, and expert opinions. Ask a question and get answers grounded in scholarly literature. Our AI research assistant is built on 250M+ academic open and paywalled papers. Try Scite Assistant free. Scite Assistant is an AI-powered research tool that answers questions by pulling from a massive database of peer-reviewed papers, always citing real sources to avoid hallucinations. It helps users like students and academics explore topics quickly with evidence-backed responses. It searches over 1.2 billion citation statements from full-text articles, classifying them as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning the original work using deep learning models. This way, you get verifiable context rather than made-up references. It's built for researchers, students, scientists, and even journalists who need reliable academic insights. Think of it as a smart sidekick for literature reviews or brainstorming without the fluff. It excels at summarizing debates in a field, building reference lists, and highlighting key papers with their citation impacts. Users often cut review time in half by spotting supporting or contrasting evidence right away. While ChatGPT might guess or invent sources, Scite grounds every answer in licensed scholarly content, showing exact citation contexts. It's like ChatGPT but with academic guardrails to keep things trustworthy. It works via a free browser extension for quick queries on any webpage, plus plugins for Zotero and integrations with platforms like Google Scholar or PubMed. You can highlight text anywhere and ask for insights.