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Description:
Scite is an AI-powered search engine that allows users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.
Label:
- Categories: Literature, AI Search Engine.
- Cost: Partially Free
- Website: https://scite.ai/
- Languages: Arabic, English, French, Others.
- Natural language processing: Yes
Features :
- Chat Assistant: (*)
- You can chat with the AI assistant by asking it questions and in return it will answer your questions including references.
- You can save the chat sessions.
- You can also export the list of references in a CSV file.
- Search Assistant:
- You can search for articles by providing a question as well as keywords that you want them to appear in the Abstract, Title, Author, Topic, etc. and
- You can filter the result to your question by selecting specific Authors, Types, Number of Citations, Journal, Topics, etc.
- You can also sort the result to your question by date or by relevance.
- You can export the result in a CSV file. (*)
- You can create Dashboard from the result by saving the search query. (*)
- Reference Check: by uploading a document, it will check the reliability of its references. (*)
(*) Paid service
Pros & Cons :
- It is possible to import your content from Zotero or Mendeley Library or simply by uploading a CSV file consisting of only DOIs.
- It is possible to look for papers that have only received supporting or contrasting citations; This is quite important since it would great to collect these studies for later when you are critically engaging with literature.
- 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.
Remarks :
- Always read original articles and make notes; this tool is meant to speed up academic work but not replace it.
