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In this video, I review five unbelievably useful AI research tools that are better than ChatGPT that you should be using in 2025. If you're doing research and writing papers, they'll allow you to choose novel research topics that get you published in Q1 Scopus indexed journals, review the literature 10 times faster, speed up the data analysis process, and write incredible research papers for Q1 Scopus indexed journals without plagiarism. And I'll start with top AI research tool number five and finish with the absolute best AI research tool that you must be using in 2025 that will forever change how you're doing research and writing research papers.
Do you feel like you're lost in all the literature that you're reading? Do you find it difficult to make sense of all these papers and draw connections between the different studies and the different researchers? Well, that's where Research Rabbit comes in. Number five on my list of top AI research tools that you must be using in 2025. Rather than go down the rabbit hole of reading, reading, reading and never actually writing anything, Research Rabbit will instantly show you the literature review maps, drawing connections between different literature with just one click of the button. You can instantly see how the research on your literature review connects with one another, and you can also see the studies that do not connect. It also allows you to see similar work and connections between that similar work and your work, which means that you can very, very quickly find new studies that might be highly relevant to what you're doing, which you haven't looked at yet. And just by hovering above one of the studies, you can clearly see how it connects to others. And the ones in green are the ones that you're using in your literature review already, and the blue ones might be the similar ones that you need to be reviewing as well. And even more usefully, you can also see the timeline from the latest to the oldest studies, which also really helps to see if you're actually reviewing some of the newest studies or maybe you're missing some of the key studies that are a little bit older. You can also do the same by looking at connections that you already have in your literature review or suggested authors. And this is a great way of seeing how the authors connect with one another and maybe which authors you're currently overlooking in your literature review and you need to look at their works to include them. And the great thing is that with just one click, it connects to Zotero and you can import any folders that you already have in Zotero, put them into Research Rabbit and start seeing all these connections. And if you want to sign up on Research Rabbit, it's completely free. There are no paid plans whatsoever. The link is right in the description. So that's tool number five when it comes to the best AI research tools you should be using in 2025.
Have you been staring at the blank page for hours? Do you know what you want to put in your research paper, but the words just aren't coming? If this has been happening to you, it's so painful and frustrating. And the big disadvantage of Research Rabbit is that it doesn't actually help you to write research papers. That's why the next two AI research tools that I'm going to show you will solve that problem. And the first of them is Paperpile. Paperpile is a Microsoft Word plug-in which you can download and install so that it appears straight away in your Microsoft Word account. And it allows you to generate outlines and structures for different sections of your research papers or entire research papers in just seconds. Just like this, within just seconds, you've got a structure for the introduction to your research paper. Paperpile can also be a fantastic brainstorming tool, like a research colleague who's unbelievably knowledgeable about your field and is able to give you answers within seconds, 24/7. If you go to the research and site feature and you just type in a question here or use one of the questions that come up as suggestions in here, you will get an answer that is actually research and evidence-based with potential citations and references that might be actually useful to use in your article. So you can just take concepts from this outline, put them in the chat and ask Paperpile for definitions or to develop these concepts. And Paperpile will not only do that, but also give you useful references. Just how much time will this save you when writing research papers and also how much pain of just staring at a blank piece of paper?
Now, Paperpile also has a proofreading tool built right in, which means that you can open any text that you've written and click on the button here, and it will generate a proofreading report pointing out all the potential mistakes that you've made with suggestions for changes. And you can either accept all of them or just accept some of them. And helpfully, it also divides them into categories so that you're not too overwhelmed with all the potential changes that might be made, but you can go category by category. Just think how much money in proofreading and editing costs this technology can save you. On top of that, you can also make your text better by paraphrasing, making it shorter, making it more academic, or looking for synonyms. And again, this is incredibly useful because it can save you thousands of dollars in academic writing courses fees or proofreading and editing costs. And finally, Paperpile also has a plagiarism check. So if you're worried whether there's some plagiarism in your text, you can check it completely for free with Paperpile. You just need to go to checks, you click on plagiarism check, it's going to take you to the website where you upload your file, and then Paperpile will generate a report based on Turnitin, which is probably the most commonly used anti-plagiarism software in the industry. And as a bonus, a really cool new feature that Paperpile just added is an AI review, which means that you can improve your text without paying for editing or proofreading services, just by using AI. And it can help you to, for example, check the flow and structure, suggestions to expand the text, improve the introduction. And when you click on it, AI will give you suggestions for how to make your text better. Of course, is this completely 100% foolproof? Probably not. It's still in the beta version. But again, think how much money, time, and effort this can be saving you when writing research papers. If you want to sign up on Paperpile, it's completely free to get started with. The link is in the description, and there's also a coupon code that gives you 20% discount.
Now, on our list of top five AI research tools that you must be using in 2025, Paperpile just missed the bronze medal, just slightly there, to a fantastic writing tool called Jenni. So unlike Paperpile, Jenni is not a Microsoft Word plug-in. If the developers of Jenni are listening to this, I think this would be a fantastic feature to add on, and maybe in 2026, it will give Jenni the gold medal for the best AI research tool. That said, the reason why I gave Jenni the bronze medal ahead of Paperpile is its ability to generate incredibly detailed outlines for not just research papers, but any kind of academic text that you're writing, including thesis chapters. You just need to create a new document, tell Jenni what you're writing, and Jenni will generate an outline with the headings for you. The initial outline is not as detailed as it could be, so what you need to do is then head to AI chat and tell Jenni what you would like to, what kind of outline you'd like Jenni to generate. I don't know why this happens, kind of requires you to do an additional click, but the outline that it's going to generate here is just so much more detailed than what Paperpile is ever able to come up with, because it not only gives you the main headings, but it also gives you the bullet points for what you should be writing, and it also gives you an approximate word count. Just how detailed is that?
A big advantage of Jenni, I think, over Paperpile is also that you can upload text to the library. As you can see, I've got quite a few texts in here, and then I can chat with those PDFs or ask Jenni specific questions to, for example, help me develop the literature review and refer to specific PDFs. And then Jenni will read that PDF and give you an answer with the reference that you were asking about. Jenni will also allow you to develop the initial ideas that you have in the outline so that you never staring at the blank screen again. So you can just select the text that you want to expand and click on "Write in more depth." Alternatively, what you could also do is simply ask Jenni, "What is the definition of native speakerism?" which was the first point that we wanted to put in our text, and then Jenni will generate a text for you. And then Jenni can also help you to improve the quality of your writing in numerous different ways by improving fluency, paraphrasing, simplifying, writing opposing arguments, again saving you thousands of dollars on proofreading, editing costs, or cost of academic writing courses. And just like Paperpile, Jenni is completely free to start. You can use the link in the description, and if you use the M20 coupon code, you're going to get 20% discount on any paid plans.
But before you start writing research papers, you need to have innovative research ideas, and you need to also read the literature extensively, and you need to analyze the data. But neither Paperpile nor Jenni will help you with that. That's why the silver medal for the best five research AI tools for 2025 goes to Avidnote. And the number of things that Avidnote can help you with when it comes to the whole research process is truly mind-boggling. Just look at all these different things it can help you with, from even planning your lessons and grading students' text if you're a university lecturer, to suggesting interview questions and helping you build surveys, through analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, to actually planning your whole study from the very beginning, making suggestions for future research, suggesting conferences for your study, or revising a whole text before a journal submission. If you've already written a text, you can also proofread your text, of course, and it has all the writing features that Jenni and Paperpile have as well, which means that you can structure any kind of text, both thesis chapters and papers. And it can also help you to develop the right methodology for your papers. Not to mention that Avidnote can also help you to read PDFs much, much faster, saving you literally thousands of hours in reading. You can ask any questions you want to the PDF, or you can select specific predefined general questions such as "What is the methodology of that paper?" "What are the limitations of that paper?" Or you can even go for more specific questions tailored to that particular PDF, which have already been generated for you by Avidnote. Just think about how much time this is going to save you in doing a literature review.
So, because Avidnote can truly help you A to Z, from generating research ideas, defining the methodology, reading the literature, analyzing the data, through writing the paper, submitting it, selecting the right journal, I've given it the silver medal for the second best AI research tool that you should be using in 2025. And you might be wondering why Avidnote then isn't the best AI research tool currently on the market in 2025. Well, I just think it's just a little bit too clunky when it comes to its interface. For example, in order to find all these modules, you'd expect them to be somewhere in the left-hand menu, but you actually have to do a lot of clicking, and it's very counterintuitive to be able to find them. You have to click on AI modules here, and then you end up here, and you don't see any modules. And it actually took me quite a while to figure out that all these modules are hiding here. So if Avidnote developers are listening to this, I think you really need to make the tool more user-friendly, in the same way that Jenni is more user-friendly, Paperpile, and the next tool that I'm going to show you, which is the absolute number one AI research tool that you should be using in 2025.
So that's why the gold medal, the best AI research tool to use in 2025, is in my opinion, SciSpace. From all the tools that I've tried when it comes to doing the literature review, writing, and being able to generate research topics, I think SciSpace packs everything into an incredibly user-friendly interface and allows you to save tons of money on having five or six different research tools and just focus on one AI tool that does the job completely. It doesn't have as many features as Avidnote, but I think its interface is much cleaner, much faster, more user-friendly, and it doesn't do everything, but it does the things that you need to do as a researcher quickly, effectively, and in a simple manner. So let's dive in and see what SciSpace looks like and how it can save you tons of time and help you write incredible research papers in 2025.
So first of all, SciSpace will allow you to do an incredible literature review without any plagiarism, 10 times faster than what you would normally do. As you've seen with the other tools that I've been reviewing, you can only chat with a single PDF document. But what SciSpace does, it allows you to first of all generate a summary of all the literature and then show you all the papers answering a particular question that you've asked. And then you can actually chat with all of these papers or find similar papers if you wanted to. But if you click on the chat button here, you can ask questions not to one document, but all of these documents. And you can do the same if you upload your own documents into SciSpace. If you were to go to my library, upload all the PDFs, or connect with Zotero and upload them via Zotero, you can then chat with a select number of them or all of them, generating answers to the questions that you have about literature review within just seconds.
On top of that, SciSpace has a fantastic AI writing module that again allows you to generate outlines. And just like that, within seconds, you've got the whole outline generated here. You can also ask SciSpace to generate outlines or write the introduction or the conclusion for you, write opposing arguments. It also allows you to improve the flow, add citations. And a great thing about it is that it's got the literature review and the writing modules all in one place. So you don't have to be using one AI tool for reading the literature and reviewing it, and then another one for writing, but you have everything in one place. And SciSpace will also suggest additional text that might be relevant for you, or also you can just refer to the text that you've got in your library.
SciSpace also has a built-in AI detector, unlike Jenni or Paperpile, which don't allow you to check for AI-generated text, which is a shame because if you're using an AI tool to help you write papers, you might want to check if your text is not generated by AI so it doesn't get flagged by journals or universities. Just a thought, Jenni and Paperpile. So SciSpace does allow you to do this. And if you just paste a text here and click on analyze, it will generate a report flagging out potential sentences that might be AI-generated and giving you a score of very high AI generation, moderate to low AI generation, which again saves you a lot of money and time on using some other AI detection software. You have everything in one place.
And SciSpace also allows you to generate new ideas for your research papers in a very user-friendly, fast, and effective manner. You can search for any topic you want, or SciSpace, based on your usage history of the tool, will suggest some topics for you. And then when you click on them, SciSpace will start generating additional ideas based on the studies that have already been conducted, identifying the gaps, looking at suggestions for future research or future studies, and make suggestions for additional topics that you can be focusing on. So first of all, you get a lovely summary of that topic, so you know exactly what has been done by previous studies. And then you can see which topics have been discussed and exactly what has been done on them. So this allows you to find novel research topics.
And SciSpace will also help you to get more citations. And citations are really the number one academic currency. The more citations you have, the higher your authority in the field, the more likely you'll be to get professorships, tenure, get grants, and all those goodies in the academic world. And the best way in the social media age to promote your research and get more citations is through videos. However, maybe you're not good on camera, maybe you're afraid to make videos, or maybe you simply just don't have time. Well, SciSpace can do all of that for you. The only thing you need to do is upload the PDF of your recent study. So once SciSpace has done its magic, you will have the slides for the presentation, and you can go over these slides and edit them if you wish to. But just think how much time this is already saved you rather than you preparing the slides either for, you know, a lecture or maybe just for presenting the paper at a conference. SciSpace has already done that for you. And even better, SciSpace has generated videos that are promoting your paper, and you can play that video here. You've got the transcript, so you could also copy and paste that transcript and use it as the description of the video. It's already been formatted for the most popular social media. So just within minutes, you can start promoting your papers and get more citations, which will boost your authority as a researcher.
In order to get started with SciSpace completely for free, you can use the link in the description to this video. Now that you've got the best five AI research tools that you must be using in 2025, you might be wondering how to actually utilize them to do an incredible literature review 10 times faster without plagiarism. And in this next video, I'll show you step-by-step how to quickly do a great literature review using AI and avoid plagiarism. So watch this video next.