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Answers questions and summarizes whatever page you're on, right from the browser toolbar.
Translates text inside images and manga panels in place, letting you pick which AI model powers the translation.
Surfaces a GPT's chat history and extra details while you browse the GPT store.
Lets you ask questions and get summaries directly from municipal codes and ordinances.
Scans pages for questions and answers them via ChatGPT, reading page context for relevance.
Pulls a random set of entries from any list with one click, right in the browser.
A free, ad-free ChatGPT add-on with curated links for the Dutch community.
Decypher uses your camera to identify post boxes and their history.
Shows PubMed citations in their original context without leaving the page you're reading.
Layers ChatGPT's answers on top of live Google and Bing results for more current context.
Condenses any webpage, linked page or selected text into three GPT-generated bullet points.
It answers questions about the page you're on. Response length can be adjusted to taste.
Right-click on any webpage to turn selected text into drafts, summaries or social posts.
Prolific connects you with verified participants for high-quality human data, but it can be costly and complex to manage.
Recommends related papers, translates PDFs and auto-formats your reference list.
Runs speech recognition locally in your browser, from files, tab audio, or your microphone.
Simplify technical language, delve deeper while learning.
A search engine that answers medical questions directly with science-based sources.
Drops ChatGPT into any text box on the web, aware of the surrounding content as it responds.
Answers direct questions about a webpage or PDF instead of making you search the whole document.
Use Pl@ntNet to identify plants quickly and contribute to biodiversity research, but be prepared for occasional misidentifications.
Limited to AI-generated content, BiblePics uses GANs for stunning images.
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Terms to know
Research tools search, read and organise sources, from academic paper finders like Elicit and SciSpace to participant recruitment through Prolific. Students, analysts and scientists use them to find studies and pull out key findings faster. The vital check is source integrity: confirm each claim in the original paper, since summaries can misstate results.
Tools connected to scholarly databases, such as Elicit, return real papers with links. General chat tools can invent references. Whichever you use, open the paper itself and check that it exists and supports the claim before citing it.
A research tool finds and compares sources across a field. A summarizer shortens one document you already have. Use a research tool to discover what to read, then a summarizer to get through a long paper quickly.
It can speed up the first pass by locating papers, extracting methods and results, and grouping themes. It cannot judge study quality or spot gaps as an expert does. Treat its table as a map, then read the key papers yourself.