## 🤖 AI Tools and Projects for Research

This table consolidates information about various AI tools and projects relevant to **academic research and scientific discovery**, categorized for clarity.

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## 💡 AI Research Projects

These are open-source projects or repositories focusing on automating or assisting the core research workflow.

| Project | Description | Focus Area |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **HKUDS/AI-Researcher** | An AI system for **autonomous scientific discovery and paper generation**, automating everything from literature review and algorithm design to manuscript drafting. It transforms user ideas or reference papers into publishable research manuscripts. | **Research workflow automation**, AI agent orchestration |
| **SakanaAI/AI-Scientist** | One of the first comprehensive tools for fully **automated open-ended scientific exploration**, capable of reviewing and evaluating papers with LLMs. It includes modules to simulate peer review for conferences like ICLR. | **Scientific discovery**, peer review automation |
| **dair-ai/ML-Papers-of-the-Week** | A curated and continuously updated repository listing the **most important ML papers each week**, ideal for staying current and identifying publication trends. | Paper discovery and research synthesis |
| **ashishpatel26/500-AI-Agents-Projects** | A large, categorized collection of **AI agent use cases** across domains, helping researchers explore applied AI and benchmark methodologies. | **AI agent design**, applied research |
| **GitHub 40M Repositories Dataset** | A meta-dataset of **40 million GitHub repositories** (2015–2025) with rich metadata — ideal for empirical software engineering or data-driven AI research. | ML-on-code, data mining, analytics |

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## 🛠️ Research Workflow Tools

These are dedicated platforms and applications designed to enhance specific steps in the research process, particularly literature review and synthesis.

| Tool | Distinct Feature | Ideal Use Case | Pricing |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Paperguide** | Semantic AI search across 200M+ papers, **extract tables/data, generate structured literature summaries**, and write research text. | **Full-cycle academic research** — search, review, and writing. | Free tier; paid plans start around $20/month |
| **Elicit (by Ought)** | **Evidence-based synthesis of literature** through Semantic Scholar corpus. | **Rapid review of studies** and evidence extraction. | Free |
| **Iris.AI** | **Systematic review** and cross-language research mapping. | **Comprehensive reviews** and meta-analysis. | Free basic, enterprise pricing available |
| **SciSpace** | **Deep PDF understanding, Q&A with papers**, and collaborative annotations. | Reading and team-based literature review. | Free + $12–$20/month for advanced plans |
| **Connected Papers** | **Visual graph linking related papers** by citation similarity. | **Exploring relationships between studies** and identifying influential works. | Free + $9.99/month Pro |
| **Research Rabbit** | “Spotify for research papers” with **author networks and personalized recommendations**. | **Curating and discovering papers** through visual or author-based search. | Free |
| **Semantic Scholar** | **Massive corpus (200M+ papers)** and AI impact metrics. | General-purpose academic search with citation-based relevance. | Free |
| **Consensus.app** | Retrieves papers and **summarizes scientific consensus for questions**. | Finding what studies agree on within a topic. | Free |