The Library has already subscribed to Scite, a powerful AI research tool designed to elevate your research experience.
Our subject guide, “AI Tools for Your Research: Scite” explains its features and provides instructions for getting started. Recently Scite has launched a new feature, Tables in Scite Assistant, a major advancement that enables researchers to extract, organize and analyze data from scientific literature.
How to Use AI Tables?
Scite's AI Tables do more than just summarize papers—they help you extract specific data points, methodologies, and outcomes directly from scientific articles.
Step 1: Go to Scite Assistant and select “Use Table Mode” for the new Table function.
Step 2: Click “Add Column” and type “name” and “instructions” for the new column. You can choose the length of the answers, from short to long.
Step 3: Continue creating new columns, such as “Methodology,” “Key Findings,” and others, to organize and analyze your data effectively.
In addition, you can export all references with all columns in various formats, such as CSV, ris and BibTeX.
New Improvements to Scite Assistant
OpenAI o3 mini + Reasoning
A new AI model, OpenAI o3 mini, now integrates advanced reasoning capabilities and is being utilized by Scite. Scite enhances its platform by combining its own datasets and access to scholarly content with powerful AI models, offering researchers tools for analysis and discovery.
What is “Reasoning”?
Reasoning Models: These are advanced AI systems that go beyond simple pattern recognition (which is what most standard AI models do). Instead, they are designed to:
- Think through problems internally before answering.
- Consider multiple approaches to solving a question.
- Evaluate the accuracy of different possible answers.
- Plan structured and coherent responses.
- Solve multi-step problems methodically.