AI Tools for Literature Reviews

An orientation to six AI tools usable at each stage of a literature review, including Elicit for summarization and data extraction and Consensus for question-answering, plus explicit cautions on citation accuracy, data privacy, and institutional integrity policy. It functions as a decision guide for picking the right tool for a given review task.

Task

Research & literature

Time

15 min

Level

beginner

Cost

Free tier — There is a free tier that covers this, with paid limits above it.

Tools

Elicit, Consensus, Research Rabbit, Perplexity, ChatGPT

Published

2026