Laurea LibGuides: AI and Information searching : AI tools for studies and development work

Artificial intelligence in academic information retrieval

Although applications of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, are not, at least for the moment, suitable for academic information retrieval, there are several different applications that use AI specifically for article retrieval. This page presents some of them.

These tools offer a different approach to article search than Laurea Finna's article search or Google Scholar. They also provide tools for brainstorming, formulating research questions, creating search terms, creating article summaries and more.

AI-powered article search tools

Keenious

There is be a paid version (Keenious Plus) and a free version available.
Laurea students and staff can access the paid Keenious Plus. Read more about how to use Keenious and how to create an account to Keenious Plus.
Keenious searches for articles on the same topic based on the text entered. The feed can be written in natural language and it can be short (a few words) or long (a whole article).
It is possible to download a Keenious plug-in for word processors (MS Word and Google Docs), which allows you to search for sources related to the text or part of the text you are writing.
Keenious Help Center

Elicit

Registration is required. Registration gives access to free Elicit Basic service.
Elicit finds academic articles indexed in Semantic Scholar. It searches among more than 125 millions articles.
Use natural language sentence(s) as the search input. An abstract from another articles works fine too.
Search results can be filtered e.g. by the number of citations, type of the article (systematic reviews, meta.analyzes etc.) or by the quality of the publication (SCImago ranking).
Elicit can also be used for extracting data from selected articles
Instructions on how to get started and tips & best practices
Video instructions

Semantic Scholar
- Free to use. No need to register but doing so gives you more tools.
- Use clear search words as search input. Searching with natural language sentences is not supported.
- Finds academic articles from more than 200 million records
- Search results can be filtered by relevance, citation count or by 'most influential papers'
- Also offers article recommendations based on the articles selected by the user.
- Suitable for users who are interested in filtering and sorting search results and saving articles for new article recommendations
- Video instructions

Visualising AI-powered article search tools

Litmaps

Free and paid versions are available with differences in the number of articles and maps.
Creates a bibliographic map with data from a single publication or, alternatively, from multiple publications using BibTeX/RIS files.
Litmaps shows the relationships between scientific articles in a dynamic network graph format. It makes suggestions for articles based on the relationships between articles, which helps you to find articles outside keywords.

Research Rabbit

New version released 10/2025
Free version gives you everything you need to run the tool. Paid version gives some additional features.
Requires creating an account.
You can start by using keyword search or adding one good article to the collection. The tool generates recommendations based on your collection using titles, abstracts and other metadata of the articles.
Research Rabbit visualizes the networks formed between publications. You can move forward on the map, creating new publication networks including authors and sources. The tool helps to find new connections between a certain phenomena being studied and the researchers.
Videos & other introductory material.