Dear Scholar,

Literature Review AI tools are entering a new phase. So-called "AI agents" are language models that don't just answer a query, but instead come up with a series of steps, autonomously search the internet, analyze papers and after a few minutes deliver an exhaustive result answering your scientific question.

During this process, the AI reads 100s or even 1000s of papers. Multiple tools can do this type of "deep" queries and all of them are mere months old:

• ​SciSpace Deep Review (which is this week's article)
• ChatGPT's Deep Research (which I compared in this week's article)
• Elicit.com
• Undermind.ai (Can be tried for free)
• X's Grok

All of these require some premium subscription, which I think is legitimate given how many hours or days you can save.

As the field is incredibly new, I don't have a favourite tool yet. SciSpace is very fast and gives you more papers but a shorter text. ChatGPT has fewer papers but a very well-written and extended text. Undermind.ai suggested papers written in Mandarin, which I can't read but which, for that matter, might hold some information I couldn't have accessed otherwise. It's time to experiment.

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In conclusion, I think that the Deep Query tools have changed the literature review process and I am planning a new webinar on literature reviews in the near future. If you have visited any of my previous webinars on lit reviews, feel free to give me some feedback and ideas for the next run by replying to this email.

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Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
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Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic​

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