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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can support your research by helping you discover scholarly sources more efficiently. By analyzing existing articles, these tools can identify related research, summarize key ideas, and visualize citation connections—making it easier to explore complex academic conversations and find sources you might otherwise miss.
NU encourages students and faculty to thoughtfully explore innovative tools, including AI, as part of the learning process. When using AI for academic work, please review Student–Faculty Usage Guidelines for Generative AI Tools at NU, which outline expectations for responsible, ethical, and transparent use in the classroom.
Please note that the AI tools listed below are not exhaustive. New tools are continually emerging, and we recommend that you approach all AI technologies with curiosity, care, and academic integrity.
Use the Learn button to view the available prompts, such as "Design research questions" or "Help me make sense of these ideas." Or simply enter a research topic into the search box.
Enter a research article and Connected Papers will build a graph of similar papers in the field. Use the prior works feature to find papers that were most commonly cited by the papers in the graph. Use the derivative works feature to find papers that cited many of the papers in the graph.
Enter a research question or topic, then use the Consensus Meter to assess the level of agreement among identified studies. See more information on the Consensus for Research page.
Use the Find Papers feature to enter a research question or topic and retrieve a summary of the top four papers related to that inquiry. Scroll down to build a table of extracted article components, including methodology, limitations, theoretical framework, future research, and others.
Open pdf files with the Google Scholar PDF Reader (Chrome browser plugin) to see an AI-generated table of contents that summarizes sections of the paper and allows you to jump directly to particular sections. This plugin also allows you to preview references in the paper by clicking the in-text citation to see a summary, find the PDF, and save citations to your Scholar Library.
Inciteful's literature connector tool allows you to enter two papers and it will give you an interactive visualization showing you how they are connected by the literature.
Simply search for your topic and select an article, or start with a specific article, and Litmaps will find other relevant articles based on connection.
Search for a research topic and hover over the hyperlinked reference to link out to the original source.
Enter a known article in the search box to select it as a "seed" article and map related literature.
Add papers to your Library to get a detailed summaries, as well as summarized findings for each of an article's references.
Add articles to your Library to extract article components in table, including conclusions, results, methods, research gap, and future research.
Search for a paper and use the Citations box to identify Highly Influential Citations, Background Citations, Methods Citations, and Results Citations. You can also find connected research using the Related Papers tab.
