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ScienceDirect AI: Explore, compare and uncover insights from deep within quality peer-reviewed literature


Trusted, deep content base


Advanced AI-powered search


Seamless integration within the research ecosystem


Responsible AI on a reliable platform


Easy search-and-verify process
What can you do with ScienceDirect AI?
Enhance your research journey like never before with ScienceDirect AI, providing the ideal blend of trusted, curated content and cutting-edge technology
Enhance your research journey like never before with ScienceDirect AI, providing the ideal blend of trusted, curated content and cutting-edge technology


Ask ScienceDirect AI
Quickly locate and summarize insights from across ScienceDirect AI’s underlying body of peer-reviewed full-text scientific papers and book chapters.
Surface critical evidence and tie it directly to its original source, enabling both traceability and reproducibility - a must for trustworthy research. Learn more


Related Insights
Receive summaries of all references used to answer your research question and uncover related insights, helping you to quickly evaluate the most relevant resources to expand your research journey.


Reading Assistant
Have a conversation with any individual document you have access to in ScienceDirect.


Compare Experiments
Evaluate and compare multiple articles at experiment level, from methods and results to conclusions and limitations. This feature saves valuable time by making in-depth analysis, decision-making and evidence comparison faster.


Personalize your research with Mendeley connection
As limited-time early-adopter perk, try Reading Assistant in Mendeley to gain insights and answer questions within an uploaded PDF.


My Library
Save ScienceDirect references found through ScienceDirect AI to your personal library, so that you can refer to them later.
Empowering researchers to transform knowledge into breakthroughs, ScienceDirect AI harnesses the power of AI to turn data into insight, accelerating discovery and simplifying research in ways never before possible.