A growing collection of resources helps chemists and other scientists with text editing, citations, image generation, and more. Beyond ChatGPT, there is significant innovation with new AI-based tools that improve organization, productivity, and writing.

Feel free to share your experiences with any of these tools or others in the comments.

 

Text Editing Tools

• DeepL Write
  AI-powered writing tool that provides phrasing suggestions, style, grammar checking
  free beta version

 

• Grammarly
  A digital writing tool that provides grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style suggestions
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• QuillBot
  AI-powered writing tool that provides paraphrasing, grammar checking, summarization, and other features
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

 

Reference Management Tools

• ChatPDF
  AI-powered tool that allows to interact with PDF documents by asking questions and receiving answers or summaries from the content of the document.
  free basic version
  paid full version

 

• Consensus
  AI-driven tool that helps explore and understand scientific literature by providing clear summaries and answers to questions based on the latest academic studies and data
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• Elicit
  AI-powered research tool that helps find relevant academic papers and literature by generating summaries, answers to research questions, and organizing information efficiently
  free

 

• EndNote
  Reference management tool that helps organize citations, references, and bibliographies.
  paid

 

• Mendeley
  A reference management and academic social network that helps chemists organize their research, collaborate with others, and discover new papers.
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• Research Rabbit
  A research discovery tool that helps find relevant academic papers and literature by using AI to identify and recommend articles based on their interests and past searches
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• Scite.ai
  A platform that uses AI to analyze and highlight the credibility and impact of scientific research papers by tracking citations and contextualizing them with statements of support, contradiction, and mention
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• Semantic Scholar
  AI-powered academic search engine that provides access to scientific papers, citation analysis, and context-aware recommendations to aid in literature discovery and research insights.
  free

 

• Zotero
  Open-source reference management tool that helps organize and cite research papers, articles, and other resources.
  free

 

 

Article Tracking Tools

• Feedly
  News aggregator that allows to follow journals, blogs, and news outlets to stay updated on the latest research and developments in their field.
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• ORCID
  A unique identifier for researchers that helps them maintain a record of their work, collaborations, and publications.
  free

 

 

Image Generation Tools

• Canva
  A graphic design platform that allows to create professional-looking visuals such as presentations, posters, social media graphics, and more using templates and easy-to-use design tools.
  free basic version
  paid premium version

 

• Ketcher
  A web-based chemical structure editor.
  open source

 

• ChemDraw
  A chemical drawing software that allows to create and edit chemical structures, reactions, and diagrams.
  paid

 

Literature Research

• Consensus
  AI tool that allows to ask questions in the format “Does x cause y?” and provides a “consensus meter” to indicate the level of scientific agreement, along with summaries of relevant papers that support, oppose, or remain neutral on a hypothesis.

 

Data Management

• Chemotion ELN
  Open Source electronic lab notebook (ELN) for scientists, developed and updated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. The web-based application allows the acquisition, management, storage, processing, and sharing of research data.
  free

 

• Chemotion ELN Test Tool
  A collection of test versions of various electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs).
  free

 

• nmrXiv Repository
  Open, FAIR and Consensus-DrivenNMR spectroscopy data repository and analysis platform
  free

 

• RADAR4Chem Repository
  To publish digital research data easily, securely, and free of charge.
  free

 

• RDMO NFDI4Chem
  Enables researchers to create a data management plan (DMP) for their research project.
  free

 

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