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Support documentation for Elicit, an AI research assistant tool sometimes used by AI safety researchers for literature review; relevant for understanding the tool's scope and limitations when conducting research synthesis.
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This support page documents the data sources used by Elicit, an AI-powered research assistant tool that helps researchers find and analyze academic literature. It explains what databases and paper repositories Elicit draws from when performing literature searches and evidence synthesis.
Key Points
- •Describes the academic databases and paper repositories that power Elicit's literature search functionality
- •Relevant for researchers evaluating Elicit's coverage and reliability for systematic reviews or evidence synthesis
- •Elicit is commonly used in AI safety research workflows for automated literature review
- •Understanding data sources helps assess potential gaps or biases in Elicit-assisted research
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About Elicit
Elicit's source for papers
Edited Wednesday, October 29 2025 Elicit searches across over 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and OpenAlex. This covers all academic disciplines.
How often are papers added?
Alerts : Daily updates from OpenAlex
Reports, Systematic Review, and Find Papers : Weekly updates from Semantic Scholar and PubMed
There may be a brief delay between a paper appearing in our source databases and being available in Elicit.
Our Data Sources
Elicit pulls papers from these major sources:
Semantic Scholar
200+ million publications across all fields
Direct partnerships with 50+ major publishers
Learn more about Semantic Scholar's coverage
OpenAlex
243 million publications from 260,000+ sources
About 2x broader coverage than Web of Science or Scopus
Learn more about OpenAlex's coverage
PubMed
33+ million citations
Focuses on biomedical literature, life sciences, and clinical medicine
Learn more about PubMed
ClinicalTrials.gov
You can opt to search for US clinical trials directly on clinicaltrials.gov by selecting the clinical trials corpus during search
Some of the resources in these databases overlap, and Elicit eliminates incomplete listings from its results, for a total of about 138 million papers from these sources.
What Publishers and Journals Does Elicit Cover?
Elicit covers major publishers across all academic fields:
Type
Examples
Major Publishers
Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE
University Presses
Oxford, Cambridge, MIT Press, Harvard, Princeton, Yale
Professional Societies
IEEE, ACM, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, BMJ, Royal Society
Open Access Publishers
PLOS, Frontiers, MDPI, BioMed Central
Preprint Servers
arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN
Institutional Repositories
Harvard Dataverse, MIT DSpace, and university repositories worldwide
Government Sources
NIH, OSTI, NASA, European research repositories
Elicit includes all major high-impact journals like Nature, Science, NEJM, T
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