Elicit Tips and Best Practices

If there’s no predefined column that exactly matches what you want or you need to give additional instructions to tweak the results or get the data in...

If you're adding columns in the Find papers workflow, filter to papers that have PDFs, so that Elicit has more information to work with: When Elicit...

High-accuracy columns give better results when extracting data. High-accuracy columns are only available to Elicit Plus and Elicit Pro subscribers. E...

Elicit can answer multiple choice questions about papers, choosing one or more options from a list of choices. Create a column, then choose "Answer St...

You can filter papers in Elicit by any information you add in columns. That means you can filter papers based on criteria like: Effect direction (po...

If you add a high-accuracy column to your table, Elicit will consider any tables within each paper when generating the answers for your columns. If El...

Extract from PDFs can handle about 3000 answers at once (e.g. 100 papers X 30 columns, or 300 papers X 10 columns). If you're running a large data ext...

Search for papers using "Find papers" Use the "Publication year" filter: Update: You can now add publication date criteria directly into your search ...

Elicit's Find papers step can handle filter criteria directly in your query to refine your search results. If you try a query like "papers about th...

When searching for papers using the Find Papers step, the "Journal quality" slider under the "Filter" button will allow you to filter your results by ...

The results of your query will vary depending on how your query is structured. Elicit will leave out any papers that it thinks are not relevant to yo...

Elicit is optimized and intended for English-language searches and results. We currently use the Semantic Scholar dataset as our primary source for pa...

Advanced search filters are a powerful hidden feature in "Find papers". You can use them to search within a particular journal, restrict your search t...

If you've already created a table using an Extract Data from PDFs step, you can add additional PDFs to it by clicking the Add Papers button at the t...

To delete an PDF from your library, simply Check the box next to the item you'd like to delete Click on the "Delete" button that appears in the toolba...

When uploading PDFs, simply click the "Add tags" button to create a tag or add an existing one to your newly uploaded papers. Then, when starting an ...

If you receive an error while uploading a PDF, hover your mouse over the red error icon and Elicit will tell you the specific error that occurred. If ...

When uploading PDF files to your Elicit Library , we recommend uploading in batches of 75 or fewer papers to maintain the speed of the uploads. If y...

Elicit's Zotero integration helps you bring your paper collections into Elicit, where you can extract data and analyze your papers! Go to your Elic...

Learn how to import papers from Zotero into Elicit here . Zotero import currently has the following limitations: We import all PDF attachments. So, t...

Elicit Plus subscribers can export their tables, including any columns that were added to the table, from Find Papers, Extract Data from PDFs, and Lis...

Elicit exports to .csv format may not import to Excel correctly, depending on your local Excel version and settings. For example, a .csv file may imp...

Every Notebook you create is saved to your Notebook History so you can return to your research, continue adding steps, and dig even deeper into your...

Have steps you don't need cluttering your Notebook? Delete them! Hover your mouse over the top left of each step, to see the trash can icon. Click the...

Have a typo in your query? Spell something wrong? Just want to run lots of queries quickly and see the results? You can do that without having to crea...

To share a Notebook with your colleagues, open the Notebook and click the "Share" button at the top right next to the title of the Notebook. Shared N...

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