Elicit Tips and Best Practices
Tips and information to help you get the most out of using Elicit.
Refining and Customizing Your Results
Create Custom Columns in Elicit
If there’s no predefined column that exactly matches what you want or you need to give additional instructions to correct errors or get the data in th...
Filter Information by Column
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...
Filter Papers by Year of Publication
Search for papers using "Find papers" Use the "Publication year" filter: Update: You can now add publication date criteria directly into your search ...
Find Papers: Adding filter criteria in natural language
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...
High-accuracy Mode
High-accuracy mode for Elicit columns gives better results when adding columns and extracting data. High-accuracy mode is only available to Elicit Pl...
Improve Column Results
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...
Improve Find Papers Search Results
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...
Using Elicit with Non-English Papers
Elicit is optimized and intended for English-language searches and results. We currently use the Semantic Scholar dataset as our primary source for pa...
Uploading and importing PDFs
Delete a PDF from the Library
To delete an uploaded 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 t...
Errors When Uploading PDFs
If you're having trouble uploading papers or getting errors on individual PDF uploads, you may be experiencing one of Elicit's known limitations: The ...
Uploading Papers in Bulk: PDF Limit
Currently, Elicit's Extract data from PDFs workflow can handle up to 100 PDFs in a single upload. If you need to add more than 100 papers or are hav...
Import Papers from Zotero
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...
Zotero Import Limitations and Troubleshooting
Learn how to import papers from Zotero into Elicit here . Zotero import currently has the following limitations: We import all PDF attachments. So, t...
Export from Elicit (Elicit Plus)
Export references in a specific format (AMA, MLA, etc.)
Find papers in Elicit Export as .bib Import the .bib file into Zotero Select all of the papers, then right-click and choose "Create Bibliography from ...
Import Elicit .csv Files to Excel
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...
General Tips
Delete a Notebook
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...
Delete a Step from a Notebook
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...
Edit a Query
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...
Technical Requirements & Troubleshooting
Elicit is designed to work with the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge and the latest versions of Windows or MacOS. Outdated browsers...