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recommendations and guiding principles designed for the community.
Description:
Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that analyzes scientific research papers and extracts key findings. This process involves breaking down complex jargon and identifying important concepts, making it easier for users to understand the content without spending hours reading entire papers.
Label:
- Categories: AI Search Engine, Summarize Articles.
- Cost: Partially Free
- Website: https://consensus.app/
- Language: English.
- Natural language processing: No
Features :
- A list of references will be listed as an answer to your question.
- It organizes extracted information into an easy-to-read summary format. [1]
- It extracts and distills key findings from scientific research papers. [1]
- It provides related articles and studies for further exploration [1]
- You can ask Consensus to generate a cite for one of your findings in one of the types of reference (APA, MLA, etc.) and then copy/paste it.
- You can share the result of your search via a Direct Link.
Pros & Cons :
- Consensus can synthesize multiple papers for you by letting the AI read several papers and synthesize the findings. (*)
- Consensus searches through peer-reviewed, published sources, ensuring the credibility of the information provided.
- Its AI reads the papers for you and extracts key findings.
- Consensus is limited to the following topics: Medicine, Economics, Social Policies, Mental health, Supplements and Sleep.
- Some extracted findings might lack the necessary context to make sense of on their own.
- Sometimes findings might bring up statements that are not what you are looking for.
(*) Paid service
Remarks :
- Always read original articles and make notes; this tool is meant to speed up academic work but not replace it.
