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Add your papers
Connect Zotero, Mendeley or your reference library — or drag in a folder of PDFs and DOIs. AI for Researchers reads and indexes everything in minutes.
For researchers, analysts & academics
AI for Researchers that reads every paper for you.
AI for Researchers from Ask the Genie reads, summarizes and synthesizes academic papers — extracting the key findings and citing every source. Run a literature review in an afternoon, stay on top of your field, and never miss a critical result again.
Research question
What methods did 2024 studies on gut–brain axis use?
● 38 papers · PubMed · ZoteroSynthesis · 9s
26 used RCTs, 8 meta-analyses. Common limitation: small samples (n<50).
12 papers citedSource · Chen et al. 2024
Methods §3.2 — randomized, double-blind, n = 42
VerifiedAI for Researchers — explained.
AI for Researchers is software that reads academic literature the way a domain expert would — understanding methods, findings, limitations and how papers relate — and answers your questions in plain language, with every claim cited back to the exact paper. It turns weeks of manual literature review into an afternoon of grounded synthesis.
01 How it works
From a folder of PDFs to a cited synthesis, automatically.
Connect your reference library or drop in PDFs and AI for Researchers reads every paper — extracting methods, findings, limitations and how studies relate. Ask a question and it returns a grounded synthesis, with each claim cited to the exact paper and page so you can verify in one click.
- Ingests PDFs, preprints, DOIs & reference libraries
- Extracts methods, findings, datasets & limitations
- Answers in plain language, citing the exact paper
02 Why researchers use it
Because the literature grows faster than anyone can read it.
Researchers use AI for Researchers to keep pace with thousands of new papers a month and to synthesize across them without missing a critical result. Common use cases span the whole research lifecycle.
- Literature reviews & systematic reviews
- Grant proposals & background sections
- Staying current on a fast-moving field
- Comparing methods & results across studies
- Fact-checking claims against primary sources
03 What you get
A literature process that's faster, deeper and fully cited.
Every answer AI for Researchers returns is grounded in the papers you trust and cited to the source — so you move faster without trading away rigor. The outcome is a defensible, reproducible synthesis your collaborators and reviewers can follow.
- Cited, verifiable answers on every question
- Contradicting findings surfaced, not buried
- A complete trail of every source & claim
- Export-ready references in your citation style
How to use AI for Researchers: step-by-step.
Getting started takes four steps — no setup project, no new query language. Add your papers, ask your question, verify the citation, and export a referenced summary.
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Ask your research question
Type a question like "what methods did 2024 studies use, and what did they find?" No search operators — just ask the way you'd ask a colleague.
Step 3
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Verify the cited source
Get a grounded synthesis with each claim cited to the exact paper, section and page. Click any citation to jump straight to the source and confirm.
Step 4
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Export a referenced summary
Turn your synthesis into a referenced literature summary in your citation style — ready to drop into a paper, grant or review.
Problems we solve at Ask the Genie related to AI for Researchers.
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Information overload
Surface the findings that matter across thousands of papers — without reading each one.
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Slow literature reviews
Synthesize a topic in an afternoon instead of three weeks of manual reading.
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Missing key findings
Catch the critical result — or the contradicting study — that a keyword search would bury.
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Citation management
Every claim is traced to its source and exported in your citation style automatically.
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Verifying claims
Cited, grounded answers let you check primary sources instead of trusting a summary.
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Synthesis across sources
Compare methods, datasets and results across many papers in one grounded view.
AI for Researchers — features, benefits & key capabilities.
Key features
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Paper summarization
A 30-page study distilled to its question, method, finding and limitation.
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Key-finding extraction
Pulls results, effect sizes, datasets and caveats into a structured view.
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Literature synthesis
Synthesizes across many papers and flags where they agree or conflict.
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Citation extraction
Every claim cited to the source and exported in your reference style.
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Cross-paper search
Ask anything across your whole library and get the exact passage cited.
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Stay-current alerts
Weekly digests of new papers that match your saved research topics.
Benefits for researchers & teams
Faster literature reviews
Stay current effortlessly
Never miss a key finding
Verifiable citations
More time for analysis
Stronger research synthesis
The outcomes research teams report.
10×
Faster literature reviews across research teams
source: 9 research customer surveys · 2026
100%
Of claims cited to the source paper & page
source: ATG answer logs
8h
Saved per researcher, per week
source: self-reported · validated
12k
Papers searchable in a typical lab library
source: median ATG deployment
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