Elicit (Scholarcy)
AI research summariser that extracts key findings, tables, and references from academic papers in seconds.
Overview
Scholarcy is an AI-powered academic paper summarisation tool that processes PDF and web articles and extracts structured information: key findings, methodology, sample sizes, tables of data, and reference lists. Rather than reading entire papers, researchers can review Scholarcy's structured summary to quickly assess relevance and decide which papers warrant full reading.
The Flashcard Library feature saves summaries of processed papers in a searchable format, building a personal research database over time. References extracted from papers can be automatically fetched and summarised, allowing recursive literature discovery. The integration with Zotero and Mendeley connects the summarisation workflow with reference management.
Scholarcyy is particularly valuable for researchers working outside their primary expertise, reviewers assessing submissions in adjacent fields, and policy professionals who need to rapidly digest scientific evidence without deep domain knowledge. It is used by over 1 million researchers and has processed over 10 million papers.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 8 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Elicit (Scholarcy) in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Scholarcy is a focused research-summarization tool that turns papers, reports and book chapters into structured 'flashcards' — highlighting findings, methods, figures and extracted references — which genuinely speeds literature review for students and researchers. Its reference extraction and import options are a real time-saver.
It is a summarizer, not a discovery or evidence-synthesis engine like Elicit or Semantic Scholar (note: this listing's name conflates the two — the site is Scholarcy), and summaries still need verification against the source. Affordable with a free browser extension; good companion tool, not a full research workflow. English-first, global, usable in ASEAN.
Notable facts
- Scholarcy can process a 30-page academic paper and extract the core findings in under 60 seconds — faster than most researchers can read the abstract.
- The tool's reference extraction feature has identified over 100 million academic references across processed papers, building one of the largest citation datasets outside of commercial databases.
- Scholarcy was the first tool to apply extractive AI summarisation specifically to academic papers rather than general text.
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