https://airesearch.directory A curated directory of AI tools for academic research — from literature search and paper writing to autonomous AI scientists. Hand-picked, verified, and organized by research workflow. en https://airesearch.directory/tool/overleaf-top https://airesearch.directory/tool/overleaf-top Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI writing helper for Overleaf — sentence-level suggestions, citation insertion, and section drafting directly in your LaTeX project. https://airesearch.directory/tool/ai-scientist-v2 https://airesearch.directory/tool/ai-scientist-v2 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sakana AI's second-generation AI Scientist: stronger experimental design, better writing, and more reliable closed-loop behavior. https://airesearch.directory/tool/ai-scientist https://airesearch.directory/tool/ai-scientist Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sakana AI's original AI Scientist: generates ideas, runs experiments, writes papers, and even reviews them — end-to-end autonomy. https://airesearch.directory/tool/summarizepaper https://airesearch.directory/tool/summarizepaper Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Paste an arXiv link or PDF, get a clean multi-section summary with figures, methods, and takeaways. https://airesearch.directory/tool/slr-fc https://airesearch.directory/tool/slr-fc Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fact-checks extracted claims during systematic reviews by tracing each back to source passages. https://airesearch.directory/tool/semantic-scholar https://airesearch.directory/tool/semantic-scholar Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Allen Institute's open academic search. Covers ~200M papers with TL;DRs, influential-citation tagging, and a free API. https://airesearch.directory/tool/scite https://airesearch.directory/tool/scite Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Goes beyond citation counts — classifies each citation as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning the cited claim. https://airesearch.directory/tool/review-helper https://airesearch.directory/tool/review-helper Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Helps human reviewers draft structured feedback faster — summaries, rubric scoring, and comment suggestions. https://airesearch.directory/tool/researcher-skill https://airesearch.directory/tool/researcher-skill Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Skills bundle that turns Claude into a research assistant — literature scan, experimentation, and writeups. https://airesearch.directory/tool/researchclaw https://airesearch.directory/tool/researchclaw Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research assistant built on Claude: literature search, deep reading, and structured writeups tuned for academic workflows. https://airesearch.directory/tool/research-rabbit https://airesearch.directory/tool/research-rabbit Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Visualizes citation networks and author collaborations. Bookmark seeds, watch for new work, and map a field over time. https://airesearch.directory/tool/rd-agent https://airesearch.directory/tool/rd-agent Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Research's R&D agent: automates data-driven research tasks — feature engineering, model selection, reporting. https://airesearch.directory/tool/protagents https://airesearch.directory/tool/protagents Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Multi-agent framework for protein research — structure prediction, function annotation, and hypothesis generation. https://airesearch.directory/tool/prism https://airesearch.directory/tool/prism Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Generates a paper section from several critical perspectives — reviewer, editor, adversarial reader — and merges the strongest version. https://airesearch.directory/tool/phd-zero https://airesearch.directory/tool/phd-zero Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agent that runs a full PhD-style research loop: problem formulation, experimentation, writing, and iteration. https://airesearch.directory/tool/papers-search https://airesearch.directory/tool/papers-search Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Search academic papers by meaning, not keywords. Embedding-based retrieval over open-access corpora. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperreview https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperreview Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Generates full-length peer reviews: summary, strengths, weaknesses, and specific questions for authors. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperforge https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperforge Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Structured section-by-section paper writer with citation integration and editable outline scaffolding. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperdebugger https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperdebugger Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scans academic drafts for logic gaps, undefined terms, inconsistent notation, and weak arguments — suggests targeted fixes. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperchain https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperchain Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Multi-stage LLM pipeline that drafts, revises, and fact-checks paper sections with explicit reasoning steps between edits. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperbanana-pro https://airesearch.directory/tool/paperbanana-pro Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI-generated scientific figures — biology diagrams, experimental setups, molecular structures — with editable vector output. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper2video https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper2video Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Generates an explainer video: slides, voiceover, and animated figures from a research paper. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper2poster https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper2poster Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Generates a conference-ready poster (A0 / A1) from a paper: layout, figure placement, and trimmed copy. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper-to-podcast https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper-to-podcast Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two-host dialogue podcast from a paper: structured discussion, explanations, and natural back-and-forth. https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper-agent-zotero https://airesearch.directory/tool/paper-agent-zotero Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agent that lives inside Zotero — reads your library, answers questions across your collection, and drafts summaries without leaving the reference manager. https://airesearch.directory/tool/openjudge-review https://airesearch.directory/tool/openjudge-review Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT LLM review harness that scores papers on rubrics borrowed from top-tier conferences; outputs structured reviewer reports. https://airesearch.directory/tool/openpaper https://airesearch.directory/tool/openpaper Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Chat with your PDFs: question-answering, highlights, and note-taking across academic papers with local-first storage. https://airesearch.directory/tool/open-coscientist https://airesearch.directory/tool/open-coscientist Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open implementation of the co-scientist pattern — AI partner that proposes and evaluates scientific hypotheses alongside a human. https://airesearch.directory/tool/newtonbench https://airesearch.directory/tool/newtonbench Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Benchmark evaluating AI agents on discovering physics laws from observations — Newtonian mechanics and beyond. https://airesearch.directory/tool/mlr-copilot https://airesearch.directory/tool/mlr-copilot Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT LLM copilot that accelerates ML research — experiment design, hyperparameter suggestions, and paper drafting.