I am currently writing a book chapter on the data economy for training AI models in healthcare. I was curious whether these research paper writing tools would be of any help or I can just rely on the foundational models like Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini for generating ideas and rephrasing words.
I searched google for these different paper writers and came across the following. I then asked them to answer: What is the regulatory landscape in medical data sharing?
Here is my evaluation of these tools, ranked based on their usefulness.
Undermind
I like the follow up questions it asks to make the paper search much more targeted. I also like that they show the timeline of papers and categorize them into themes. This seems to be the best to gain an overview of a field and creating an outline.
Scite
It writes the text already formatted in paragraphs. The citations are displayed on the right, making it easy to verify them and access for further reading. As for the content itself, it more or less makes sense but it seems arbitrary which topics it covers, what papers it cites and how the ideas flow.
Consensus
This tool gives a good overview of different issues and is formatted more like an outline.
Elicit
It provides brief summaries. My guess is that this is more for binary questions like will lead lower my IQ?.
Jenni
It takes an interesting approach by autocompleting the next sentences. I think this is best for writing when you already know what you want to say and just looking for aid with finding relevant papers.
Paperpal
The text generator still needs some improvements. In the example, it mentioned Africa out of nowhere for instance.
Hyperwrite
Not really for scientific papers
Genei
Not sure what’s supposed to happen here. There was just ways to upload your papers, but this can already be easily done with Claude, NotebookLM and ChatGPT