AI TOOLS FOR RESEARCH
Find tools for literature search, reading, writing, and research automation. Browse by task and research stage, then check the original source before choosing.
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6 TOOLSFree AI-powered academic search engine
AI research assistant for literature review
Evidence-first scholarly search
Visual paper similarity explorer
Automated ML research via agentic tree search
Autonomous web research agent
ALL TOOLS
68 INDEXEDCollaborative AI agent research lab
Autonomous ML research agent
Platform bundling AI tools for scholars
Turn research ideas into evidence trails
End-to-end academic paper drafter
Automated paper digests for your feed
Automated research workflow engine
Paper to presentation slides, automatically
AI-generated TikZ figures
Curated awesome-list of AI research tools
Awesome list: LLM agents for scientific discovery
Awesome list: LLMs in scientific discovery
Biology research agents
Benchmark for agents doing scientific data analysis
Overleaf AI chat extension with your own model API
Visual paper similarity explorer
Evidence-first scholarly search
Chemistry-focused co-scientist
Scientific discovery benchmark world
Research workspace for multiple coding agents
Multi-agent programming for AI-aided drug discovery
Data science research agent
Data science agent benchmark
Economics paper writing skill for Claude Code and Codex
AI research assistant for literature review
Self-improving presentation generator
Research agents with evolving memory and skills
Autonomous web research agent
Agent framework for long-running tasks
Personal AI research assistant
LaTeX paper writing skills pack
LLM-powered systematic review assistant
LLM-powered literature review toolkit
LLM for symbolic regression
Benchmark for LLM symbolic regression
LLMs for scientific discovery — reference hub
ML research agent benchmark
ML engineer benchmark (OpenAI)
ML research copilot
Physics discovery benchmark
Open-source co-scientist agent
Open-source paper reading assistant
Open peer review with LLM judges
Personalized daily arXiv recommendations
Convert academic papers into podcasts
Paper to academic poster
Paper to explainer video
AI scientific illustration suite
Chain-of-thought paper writing pipeline
Find and fix issues in your draft
Forge academic papers section by section
AI peer reviewer for academic papers
Neural search for AI and ML papers
Autonomous PhD-style research agent
AI-assisted LaTeX writing workspace
Protein research agents
R&D agent for data-driven research
Discovery graph for academic literature
Local-first research workspace and runtime
Researcher skill pack for Claude
Review copilot for editors and reviewers
Smart citations with support / contrast signals
Free AI-powered academic search engine
Course materials for AI-assisted systematic reviews
One-click paper summaries
Template-based automated ML research
Automated ML research via agentic tree search
Overleaf-native academic writing assistant
ABOUT THIS DIRECTORY
AI Research Directory organizes research software and resources by task and research-loop depth: Reference, Tool, Analyst, and Scientist. Listings link to official projects. Source reviews and hands-on evaluations are different; a source review does not establish that a tool's claims work in practice.