Elicit
Search papers, screen candidates and extract structured information into tables and cited reports.
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Consensus
Answers “what does research say about X?” with a short synthesis linked to cited papers.
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Semantic Scholar
Free academic discovery with citation links, research feeds and TLDR summaries for supported papers; API access has separate terms.
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OpenAlex
An open scholarly index of works, authors, institutions and topics for literature discovery and bibliometrics.
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Connected Papers
Builds a visual similarity graph from one seed paper to surface prior and derivative work.
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ResearchRabbit
Explore related papers and author connections from a seed collection, with recommendations for further reading.
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Litmaps
Map connections between papers, discover related literature and monitor new work on a topic.
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Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM)
Import documents or discover sources, then ask questions and create summaries with citations back to the notebook sources.
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Zotero
Reference manager for collecting, organizing, annotating and citing sources; a foundation for an AI-assisted reading workflow.
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Undermind
Literature-search assistant that refines a research request, follows citation trails and organizes findings with source links.
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paper-qa
Python library for citation-grounded question answering over a folder of PDFs (RAG).
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PaperSeek
Open-source AI literature search that turns a question into search queries and organizes the results.
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Perplexity
Web answer engine with source links for quick background research and follow-up questions.
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ASReview
Open-source active learning for systematic-review screening; the model re-ranks records as you label them.
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DeepL Write
Sentence-level rewriting and grammar suggestions for English and other languages, useful for non-native drafts.
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RefChecker
Validates a paper's reference list against bibliographic databases to flag wrong or non-existent citations.
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AI-research-feedback (Claes Bäckman)
Claude Code skills by Claes Bäckman for reviewing papers, pre-analysis plans, grants and analysis code, and communicating research findings.
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AnswerThis
Drafts literature-review style text from a question with linked sources.
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Scholar Inbox
Personalized paper recommendations trained from your ratings, with daily digests and literature exploration features.
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zotero-arxiv-daily
Rank new preprints by relevance to your Zotero library and send an email digest through a configurable workflow.
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Hugging Face Papers
Daily community-upvoted AI papers with linked code, models and discussion threads.
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agent-research-skills (lingzhi227)
A collection of Claude Code skills covering literature search, methods, analysis, writing and presentation tasks.
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claude-academic-research (mronkko)
Claude Code plugin for social-science systematic reviews with Zotero operations, PDF retrieval, fact-checking and a critic loop.
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arxiv-mcp-server
Local MCP server for searching arXiv, reading paper sections and preparing metadata-based citations for an agent.
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co-researcher
Research-agent plugin with literature-review workflows and citation-checking steps against scholarly databases.
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DeepTutor (HKUDS)
HKUDS tutoring project combining learning workspaces, source-based chat, notebooks and guided study activities.
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CSS Primer
Ji Ma’s free companion materials for computational and AI-assisted social-science research, including primers, notebooks and datasets.
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Sheffield RCG Research AI Landscape
A research-computing landscape of AI tools organized by research capability and evaluation criteria.
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AI literature-review agent tools directory
A curated GitHub list of open literature-review agents, MCP servers and skills.
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One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)
Newsletter by a Wharton management professor on using AI in work, teaching and research.
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Ground every citation, then run a critic pass
A documented manuscript workflow: ground citations in consulted sources, then review evidence, methods and arguments through a critic pass.
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ChatGPT vs. crowd workers for text annotation (Gilardi et al., PNAS 2023)
Political scientists compared zero-shot ChatGPT labels with MTurk crowd workers on tweet and news annotation tasks (relevance, stance, topics, frames).
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“Out of One, Many” — silicon samples (Argyle et al., Political Analysis 2023)
Conditioned GPT-3 on demographic backstories from US election surveys to simulate how subgroups would answer.
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EDSL (Expected Parrot)
Python package for designing surveys and experiments that are answered by LLM “agents” with assigned personas, across many models.
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Where LLMs help in CSS — and where they don't (Ziems et al.)
Benchmark of LLMs on many computational-social-science coding tasks, with practical guidance on when to use them.
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ChatAcademia
A research workspace whose agents search scholarly databases, find supporting citations, review drafts and locate grants.
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STORM (Stanford OVAL)
University research system that searches the web, builds an outline from multiple perspectives, and writes a cited, Wikipedia-style report on a topic; Co-STORM lets you join the conversation.
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GPT Academic (gpt_academic)
A Chinese-oriented LLM interface for paper reading, translation and editing, with configurable buttons and PDF/LaTeX plugins.
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Awesome GPT for Zotero (zotero-gpt)
A Zotero plugin for questions, summaries, translation and notes based on selected papers, PDF text and reading notes.
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Zotero PDF Translate
A Zotero plugin that translates selected text, annotations, notes and metadata through configurable translation services.
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ChatPaper
Chinese community project that summarizes and translates papers, polishes drafts, and drafts reviews and review responses with ChatGPT.
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cntext (Chinese text analysis for social science)
Python library from the Chinese text-as-data community (textdata.cn) with Chinese sentiment dictionaries, word embeddings, dictionary expansion, semantic projection and an LLM annotation helper.
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Metaso AI Search, academic mode (秘塔AI搜索)
Chinese AI search with an academic scope and Chinese, English and PubMed collection filters.
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GPT-4, Claude and Kimi as grounded-theory coders (China Social Sciences Today)
A Wenzhou Medical University researcher ran interview transcripts through three LLMs using an event-based grounded-theory coding scheme and compared the results.
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CUHK CSS Lab webinar on LLMs for computational social science
Webinar by Diyi Yang (Stanford) hosted by CUHK's Computational Social Science Lab, on a roadmap for LLMs as CSS tools, with zero-shot results for 10+ models on social-science benchmarks.
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How to use LLMs for text analysis (Törnberg)
Step-by-step Python guide for social scientists with little programming experience, from API setup and prompt design to validating LLM labels, using populism detection as the running example.
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Agents4Science 2025 — a conference where AI was first author
A Stanford-organized 2025 conference exploring AI as primary research authors and reviewers, with transparency requirements and a public conference recording.
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The AI Scientist's workshop paper (Sakana AI)
A company submitted three fully AI-generated papers to an ICLR 2025 workshop with organizers' consent to test peer review.
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OpenScholar (Ai2 / University of Washington)
Open retrieval-augmented model that answers research questions from 45 million open-access papers with citations; model, index and data are public.
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GPT Researcher
Open-source autonomous agent that plans a research question, searches the web or your own documents, and writes a cited report; works with many LLM providers.
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Nature poll — is it OK for AI to write science papers?
Nature surveyed 5,229 researchers about AI-assisted drafting, editing, translation and peer review; the public supplement includes its methods, scenarios and anonymized responses.
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Rayyan
A web platform for collaborative review screening, deduplication and organizing inclusion decisions.
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Can GPT-4 replace humans in systematic reviews? (Khraisha et al., Research Synthesis Methods 2024)
A preregistered study tests GPT-4 for title/abstract screening, full-text review and data extraction across languages and literature types.
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ATLAS.ti AI Coding
ATLAS.ti offers AI-generated open and descriptive coding suggestions that researchers can inspect and refine.
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MAXQDA AI Assist
MAXQDA add-on for summaries, coding suggestions and data chat; AI Assist Premium also supports a model on your own computer or server.
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Codebooks and GPT-3 for deductive coding (Xiao et al., IUI 2023 Companion)
A case study combines expert-written codebooks with GPT-3 prompts for coding curiosity-driven questions, then compares labels with expert coding.
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“Synthetic replacements for human survey data?” (Bisbee et al., Political Analysis 2024)
Political scientists asked ChatGPT to answer ANES feeling-thermometer questions as demographic personas and compared the results with real respondents.
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Simulating individuals from interviews and surveys (Park et al.)
Using data from 1,052 Americans, the study compares agents grounded in two-hour interviews, structured surveys or both on held-out survey and behavioral outcomes.
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“Homo silicus” — LLMs as simulated economic agents (Horton et al., NBER)
The working paper uses LLMs as simulated economic agents, assigning information and preferences before examining behavior in classic experimental scenarios.
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AgentSociety (Tsinghua FIB Lab)
Open-source platform from Tsinghua University for LLM-agent social simulation; v1 simulated city-scale mobility, economy and social dynamics, v2 targets social-science experiments.
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Evaluate LLMs against your codebook first (Halterman & Keith, Political Analysis)
A five-stage framework: prepare the codebook, test basic capabilities, evaluate zero-shot accuracy, analyze errors and consider supervised tuning, demonstrated on three political-science datasets.
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ellmer (R)
An R package for calling LLM providers, with structured extraction, streaming and tool calling, including support for local models through Ollama.
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mall (R and Python)
Runs LLM classification, sentiment, extraction, summarization and translation row by row over a data-frame column, with local models via Ollama or cloud providers.
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Deep Learning for Economists + EconDL (Melissa Dell, JEL 2025)
Journal of Economic Literature review of classifiers, embeddings and generative models for social-science data, with a companion site of demo notebooks and a knowledge base.
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Generative AI for Economic Research (Korinek, JEL, with updates)
A published guide to LLM uses in ideation, writing, literature work, coding, data analysis and mathematical derivation; the publisher also links an August 2025 agent update.
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COPE position — AI cannot be an author; disclose its use
The Committee on Publication Ethics states AI tools cannot be listed as authors, that use in writing, images or analysis must be disclosed in methods, and that authors are responsible for AI-produced content.
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Swarma Club reading groups on computational social science (集智俱乐部)
Chinese interdisciplinary community with reading groups, courses and articles on complexity science, artificial intelligence and computational social science.
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Asta (Ai2) — Paper Finder and literature reports
Ai2’s research-assistant initiative includes finding papers and generating literature summaries with linked citations, drawing on its Paper Finder and ScholarQA components.
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scite
Searches scholarly material and displays citation contexts, including supporting and contrasting citations, with an assistant grounded in literature.
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SciSpace
Research platform offering paper search, PDF questions, literature review, writing and data-extraction tools.
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alphaXiv
A research-discovery site connecting papers, researchers and organizations, with paper browsing and literature-grounded answers.
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QualCoder
An open-source desktop application for coding text, images and audiovisual material, with optional AI assistance.
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Ollama: configure local model processing
Runs supported models locally and also offers cloud features. For a local research workflow, select a local model and disable cloud features before processing data.
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BERTopic
A modular topic-modelling library combining embeddings, clustering and topic representations.
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GPT for multilingual psychological text analysis (Rathje et al., PNAS 2024)
Tested GPT-3.5, 4 and 4 Turbo on sentiment, emotions, offensiveness and moral foundations across 15 datasets (about 48,000 annotated tweets and headlines) in 12 languages.
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Best practices for text annotation with LLMs (Törnberg, Sociologica 2024)
Open-access sociology essay with concrete rules for model choice, structured prompts, prompt-stability checks, validation and the ethics and legality of LLM annotation.
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Writefull
Academic-language feedback trained on published papers, built into Overleaf and Word, with paraphrasing, abstract and title suggestions.
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colloquium (Nathan Lambert)
Markdown-native slide tool built for academics who draft talks together with coding agents.
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Academic Research Skills (ARS)
Claude Code skills covering research planning, writing, review and revision, with a systematic-review screening module.
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Qinyan Academic Skills
Multilingual agent skills for literature work, scientific writing, revision, figures and statistical reporting, with selective installation.
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AlterLab Academic Skills
Academic agent-skill collection with research writing, citation checks, social-science methods and digital-humanities modules.
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LLMs as research tools — survey of 816 researchers
Large survey of verified paper authors on how they use LLMs in research and how they feel about it.
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“Using AI for Academia” podcast (用AI搞学术)
Chinese podcast in which a social-science practitioner and an AI engineer discuss AI-assisted academic and teaching workflows.
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WaytoAGI knowledge base (通往AGI之路)
Chinese AI knowledge base and learning community offering tutorials, tool information and shared practice; useful as a supplementary discovery channel.
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Synced / Jiqizhixin (机器之心)
Chinese AI media site with research and industry coverage, article indexes, tool information and a paid newsletter.
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AI as Normal Technology (Narayanan & Kapoor)
Newsletter by the Princeton authors of “AI Snake Oil”, analyzing AI as a transformative but normal technology; a sober counterweight to hype.
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arXiv cs.CY — Computers and Society
arXiv’s Computers and Society category lists preprints on computing and social issues, including AI-related work.
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RAISE + joint AI position statement (Cochrane, Campbell, JBI, CEE 2025)
A joint position from Cochrane, Campbell, JBI and CEE emphasizes researcher accountability, context-appropriate evaluation and transparent reporting when using AI in evidence synthesis.
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SYNERGY dataset (ASReview)
A collection of review-screening datasets with inclusion labels for practising and evaluating screening methods.
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Dialogues with AI durably reduce conspiracy beliefs (Costello, Pennycook & Rand, Science 2024)
A published experiment used three rounds of personalized dialogue with GPT-4 Turbo to test changes in participants’ conspiracy beliefs, compared with unrelated-topic conversations.
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Whose opinions do language models reflect? (Santurkar et al., ICML 2023)
Introduces OpinionQA to compare model responses to public-opinion questions with the views of 60 US demographic groups.
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Questioning the survey responses of LLMs (Dominguez-Olmedo et al., NeurIPS 2024)
Put American Community Survey questions to 43 language models and checked whether their answers survive simple controls such as shuffling answer order.
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Chain-of-thought qualitative coding matches humans on some tasks (Dunivin)
A sociologist redesigned a codebook for LLM use and compared GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 with human coders on interpretive coding tasks.
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LLM-assisted content analysis, LACA (Chew et al., RTI 2023)
Research-institute team proposed a workflow that brings an LLM into deductive coding as a co-coder, and benchmarked it on four public coding datasets.
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noScribe: local interview transcription
Free desktop app by a sociologist that transcribes interviews entirely on your computer with Whisper, identifies speakers, and includes an editor for corrections; about 60 languages.
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Whisper (OpenAI, open model)
Open-source speech-recognition model that runs locally and underlies many transcription tools; also usable for large audio corpora such as speeches or broadcasts.
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Tongyi Tingwu (通义听悟)
Alibaba’s audio/video assistant offers transcription, speaker separation, summaries and translation through its hosted service.
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Twitter-RoBERTa sentiment model (Cardiff NLP)
An English RoBERTa sentiment classifier with negative, neutral and positive labels, pretrained on tweets and fine-tuned on TweetEval.
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Sentence Transformers (Hugging Face)
A Python library for embedding and reranking models, supporting semantic search and similarity analysis.
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SICSS — Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science
Computational social-science summer institutes with a public learning library covering text analysis, surveys, experiments, data ethics and AI-related talks.
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IC2S2 2026: computational social-science conference program
The 2026 International Conference on Computational Social Science in Burlington, Vermont provides a program and tutorial listings for discovering methods and research teams.
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Oxford LLMs
A research and teaching hub connecting language models with social-science questions.
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Oxford LLMs open course
Five modules move from text representations to retrieval and research agents.
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Oxford LLMs workshop materials
Public lecture slides and notebooks from the social-science summer school.
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Tsinghua AI4SS platform
A university infrastructure project bringing data, computation and disciplinary AI services together.
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MSU SSRC AI tools database
A downloadable historical inventory of AI applications for social-science research.
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AI4S DB research directory
A bilingual directory that connects research tools with models, databases and workflows.
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Oregon State library tool comparison
A librarian comparison of literature discovery and review tools by function and access.
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Yale library guide to evaluating AI tools
A framework for checking AI tools, their sources and the limits of retrieval-augmented answers.
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Stanford AI in Academic Research
A library gateway to university guidance, training and AI research resources.
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Georgetown library AI research tools
A function-first comparison showing what research tools do and which data they use.
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Keenious
Helps discover related academic work from a topic or material you are reading.
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Scholarcy
Turns supplied documents into structured summary cards for reading and organization.
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AQDA
A local web application for qualitative coding with optional Ollama assistance.
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quallmer
An R package for codebook-based LLM coding and inspecting agreement and provenance.
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LLMCode
A research toolkit using manually coded examples to guide LLM-assisted qualitative analysis.
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AInterviewer
Documentation for configuring, piloting and distributing AI-assisted interviews.
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SciSciGPT
A research project coordinating agents for science-of-science literature, data and analysis.
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Textdata: Da Deng’s Python blog
Chinese tutorials and reading lists on text-as-data, Python and social-science applications.
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Lianxh AI and research methods
A Chinese methods community connecting empirical research, coding and AI workflows.
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Simon Willison’s LLM notes
An engineer’s detailed notes on model behavior, tools, data workflows and evaluation.
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Lilian Weng’s Lil’Log
Technical learning notes synthesizing research on language models, agents and evaluation.
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
A researcher-led discussion site for statistical practice, inference and the interpretation of evidence.
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LSE Impact blog
University-hosted essays on research methods, scholarly communication and AI in academic work.
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Peking University digital tools directory
A Chinese university directory showing how departments organize AI teaching and research services.
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Fudan’s WisPaper research workflow introduction
A university account of linking paper discovery, management and tracking in one research workflow.
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Ruanyifeng’s technology weekly
A Chinese weekly collection of technical articles, tools and projects that can generate research-tool leads.
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Designing an agent workflow
Lilian Weng explains the systems around an agent: workflow, context, persistent files and evaluation.
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Choosing AI tools for real tasks
Ethan Mollick distinguishes chat, hosted agents and desktop agents through examples of knowledge work.
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Evaluating research agents
A research report organizes agent evaluation around methods, real-world settings and the people doing the evaluation.
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Designing for human and AI collaboration
Gabriel Unger and Arvind Narayanan outline a research agenda for AI that supports human work.
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