From Idea to Publication : AI Tools for PhD Students and Researchers

If you are a PhD student or researcher, there are several AI tools available that can assist you in various stages of your research. 

 

⏩Research Planning:

GanttPRO

A research planning tool to create a timeline, tasks, follow progress and deadlines.
https://ganttpro.com/

Power Notes

Power note is integrating an AI Assistant and focuses on collecting and organizing secondary research  

https://www.powernotes.com/

Asana

Asana - a project management tool that enables you to create and manage tasks, timelines, and project schedules.

https://asana.com/ 

Monday.com

Monday.com - a team management platform that allows you to plan and track your research progress using customizable templates and boards.

https://monday.com/ 

Airtable

Airtable - a flexible and collaborative database tool that enables you to organize and manage your research data and projects.

https://airtable.com/ 


Finding & Synthesizing Literature:

➣ Semantic Scholar

Get access to 200 million research papers, discover links between topics, get recommendations based on recent searches and generate summaries.
https://lnkd.in/dKkGMeXw

Iris.ai

This tool uses machine learning to assist researchers with identifying relevant scientific papers based on a given research question.

 https://iris.ai/

Scholarcy

AI powered article summarizer which identifies key info like participants, data analysis, main findings and limitations.
https://lnkd.in/d-n_yEHn

Paper Digest

Creates 3-minute summaries of research papers by extracting key ideas and sentences.
https://lnkd.in/d7TsH96f

Semantic Scholar

This AI-powered search engine can help researchers find relevant papers and extract key information from them, such as key figures, tables, and citations.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Content Mine

Enables you to find, download, analyze, and extract knowledge from academic papers.
https://lnkd.in/dQ73C2Af

Zotero

This is a reference management tool that can help researchers organize their sources and generate bibliographies automatically.

https://www.zotero.org/

Elink.io

Enables you to save the content from around the web: articles, videos, cloud files, social media posts and share them with peers.
https://elink.io/

Elicit

Another AI tool which helps you find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
https://elicit.org/

DeepDyve

This tool provides access to millions of scholarly articles and allows researchers to search for and access full-text PDFs.

https://www.deepdyve.com/

Scite

Allows researcher to see how publication has been cited by providing the context of citation and discover supporting and contrasting evidence for each paper.
https://scite.ai/

ReadCube

This tool offers a suite of features, including reference management, annotation, and literature discovery, powered by machine learning and natural language processing.

https://www.readcube.com/

SciSpace Copilot

A multi-lingual AI tool, is helps you comprehend the paper (and the math and tables in it), seek answers to your queries, turn lengthy texts and sections into easy to consume summaries.
https://typeset.io/

Kopernio

This browser extension can help researchers quickly access full-text PDFs of research papers, saving them time and effort.

https://kopernio.com/

 

Data Analysis:

RapidMiner

This is a platform that provides data mining and predictive analytics tools for researchers who don't have programming skills.

https://rapidminer.com/

KNIME Analytics Platform

This is an open-source platform that provides various data analysis tools and allows researchers to create custom workflows.

https://www.knime.com/knime-analytics-platform

DataRobot

This is an AI platform that can help researchers with data analysis, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, and predictive modeling.

https://www.datarobot.com/

Google Cloud AutoML

This is a suite of machine learning tools that can help researchers with data analysis tasks such as image classification, natural language processing, and translation.

https://cloud.google.com/automl

Excel Formula Bot

Converts your text instructions into spreadsheet formula.
https://lnkd.in/dRFKeC25!


Academic Writing:

Trinka

A grammar checker and language correction AI tool for academic and technical writing; finds errors unique to academic writing that other grammar checker tools may miss.
https://www.trinka.ai/

 

Overleaf

This is an online writing and collaboration tool that can help researchers with academic writing, offering a range of templates and tools to make the writing process more efficient and streamlined.

https://www.overleaf.com/

Lex

A text editor which helps you neatly store and format documents with simple prompts including references, headers and bulleted list.
https://lex.page/

Scrivener

A tool for long writing projects. It helps you fight page fright and writer's block by letting you write text in any order and find its place in the thesis later. Helpful in keeping your notes organized.
https://lnkd.in/dtXgAQnT

 

Manuscript

This AI tool can help researchers with writing, providing suggestions for sentence structure, word choice, and more, to improve the readability and clarity of their writing.

https://manuscript.com/

 

ProWritingAid

This tool offers similar functionality to Grammarly, including grammar and spelling checks, as well as style and readability analysis.

https://prowritingaid.com/ 

 

Citations/ Bibliography/ Referencing:

Endnote

This tool streamlines the process of formatting bibliographies, locating the impact of references, and accessing full texts, thus saving researchers nearly 200,000 hours per year that would otherwise be spent on citation formatting.
https://endnote.com/

Mendeley

Creates references, citations, and bibliographies in multiple journal styles.
https://www.mendeley.com/
  

Refinitiv

Refinitiv - a data provider that offers financial and economic data, news, and analytics to support research in finance, economics, and related fields.

https://www.refinitiv.com/

RefWorks

This is a web-based reference management tool that can help researchers with citations and bibliography, as well as collaboration and sharing of sources.

https://www.refworks.com/

Paperpile

This is a reference management tool designed specifically for Google Docs, which can help researchers with citations and bibliography, as well as searching and organizing sources.

https://paperpile.com/



Note : 
The objective of these tools is not to generate your thesis or paper, but rather to assist you in maximizing your efficiency and utilization of resources during your research.

These are just a few examples of AI tools that can be useful for PhD students and researchers. It's important to note that the choice of tools may depend on the specific research field and the type of research being conducted.