Chat with Papers

The Chat with Papers feature helps you get to the heart of your research questions quickly, just as if you were chatting with the author(s) of the paper(s)! It's a powerful tool that uses natural language to generate insights from a Research Report, a single paper, or a diverse body of papers.

Chat enables you to:

• Compare and contrast papers

• Summarize multiple papers along specific dimensions (like their methodologies)

• Cluster papers by a certain topic

• Ask clarifying questions about a single paper or topics discussed in multiple papers

• Critique papers

• and more!

Chat is available in Find Papers, Upload & Extract, Systematic Reviews (in the Report step), and Research Reports. In Find papers or Reports, use the chat box at the bottom of the right hand sidebar it to ask a question or dive deeper into the topics in the report or papers.

Enter your question or prompt into the chat box along with any instructions you'd like to give about how to structure the reply. For example, you can tell Elicit to answer in a certain number of words, ask it to reply using bullet points, tell it to compare and contrast specific papers, etc.

If you are chatting in a report, the chat will have access to the content of the report only, not the papers. To chat with specific papers directly, use Find Papers or Upload & Extract. You can chat with up to 8 papers at a time with a paid Elicit subscription or 4 papers at a time as a free user.

When using Upload and Extract select at least one paper in the table. Then click Add New Step at the bottom of the table and choose the chat option.

Based on the results, you can keep chatting to ask more questions or dig deeper into a topic.

To view previous chats in a report or the Find Papers workflow, click the clock icon above the chat window: