Each research report you create counts as 1 workflow toward your plan's workflow limit.

Enter any research question in Elicit to generate a research-backed report! Here's a sample research report that Elicit completed, fully automatically: How effective is oral citicoline for neuro-inflammation?

Enter your research question

On the Elicit homepage, start with the Report option and enter your research question:

Use Elicit's suggestions to improve your research question. The more precise your question, the better Elicit's screening and data extraction will be, contributing to a higher quality report.

You can also choose one of Elicit's report templates — General Review, 1-Page Overview, or Research Gap Analysis — depending on the type of report you'd like. Once you're happy with your question and template selection, click the green arrow to continue.

Depending on your Elicit plan, you can select a fast, balanced, or comprehensive report. After making your selection, click Generate Report to begin the process.

What does Elicit do once you click "Generate report?"

Elicit will automatically conduct a rapid review to generate your report. While you're freed up to focus on other tasks, Elicit is:

Searching over 138 million papers to gather papers relevant to your research question
Defining screening criteria based on your research question
Applying those criteria against all found papers to filter for the most relevant papers to include in your report
Defining a set of data to extract systematically from all included papers
Gathering and summarizing data to write a detailed, thorough report of its findings

You can see where Elicit is in this process by watching its progress in the Report sidebar. As Elicit moves through its steps, you can watch what's happening or leave the page and work on something else.

Reports can take several minutes to complete. You'll automatically be emailed when your report is complete.

Review your completed report

Once complete, Elicit will write a detailed report for you to review. You can click within the report to review supporting quotes and reasoning.

You can look back through the steps Elicit took to better understand the papers found, how Elicit screened your papers, and the instructions used for data extraction.

Editing your report

Available on the Pro, Team, or Enterprise plans only.

You can click through to examine each step Elicit took in detail. Unlike any other AI tool, you have full control over your report and can edit all earlier steps — including making changes to screening criteria, screening more papers in or out, adding or removing data extraction columns, or changing column instructions.

Make any changes you'd like and proceed through the steps to generate an updated report. Any previous versions of your report will be available under the version selector in the right sidebar of the report page.

Exporting source data

As steps complete, you can export the resulting table from each step to a CSV file, including:

The list of papers Elicit found and screened for you
The screening criteria used and screening results for each paper, including Elicit's reasoning for all answers provided
The final data extraction table showing all columns used for data extraction, supporting quotes, and reasoning