Elicit

What is Elicit?

Elicit is a research tool designed to speed up literature reviews. It helps researchers find papers that can be difficult to track down, automates parts of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and supports exploration of new research areas.

It works best in empirical research fields — those dealing with experiments and measurable results, such as biomedicine or machine learning. Elicit is not designed to answer questions or provide information that isn’t documented in academic papers, so it’s a poor fit for retrieving specific facts like statistics or exact numbers, or for theoretical and non-empirical subjects.

Elicit searches a collection of about 125 million academic papers drawn from the Semantic Scholar corpus, spanning a broad range of academic disciplines.

Who created Elicit?

Elicit was founded by Allen Ross. His company focuses on extracting, organizing, and synthesizing data for research purposes.

Who is Elicit for?

• Researchers
• Scientists
• Data Analysts
• Biomedical researchers
• Machine learning engineers
• Academic librarians
• Systematic reviewers
• Meta-analysts
• Graduate students
• Policy Analysts

How to use Elicit?

• Search: Type in a research question or topic to discover relevant academic papers efficiently.
• Review results: Elicit returns a curated list of papers matching your query, giving you quick access to relevant information.
• Refine: Use more specific keywords, phrases, or filters to narrow results and find the most relevant papers.

Used well, Elicit streamlines the literature review process, surfaces hard-to-find papers, and supports insight-gathering across empirical domains.