Scholise

Scholise is an AI research workspace aimed at university students and researchers. It searches more than 235 million peer-reviewed papers across five academic databases, answers research questions with inline citations, lets you annotate PDFs and ask questions grounded in the document, and returns verified citations. The site stresses that every source is a real, linkable paper rather than an invented reference.

The two main tools are a Research Assistant and a Source Finder. The Research Assistant searches literature in real time and returns structured answers with Summary, Evidence, Contested Areas and Gaps, and follow-up questions and chat with a specific paper are supported. The Source Finder ranks results, filters by year, open access and peer review, labels arXiv preprints and lets you save sources to a project. Further tools include PDF annotation, an evidence table that extracts each saved paper's aim, method, findings and limitations, and a citation checker that flags claims as supported, needing a citation, over-claiming or low confidence.

References export in formats such as APA, IEEE, Harvard, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver and AMA. The site has comparison pages against Zotero and Elicit and a pricing page, and describes itself as suited to literature review workflows for university students.