What are some effective tools for research?
Asked "What are some effective tools for research?", Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode named 56 distinct tools across 5 answers on September 9, 2026, and 21 of them in two or more answers.
Measured acrossCopilotChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI Mode
21 of 56 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 5 answers · asked September 9, 2026 · 5 engines
Effective tools for research include literature discovery tools like Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar, reference management tools like Zotero and Mendeley, and data analysis tools like R and Python.
- 1Zoteronamed in 5 of 5 answers
- 2Mendeleynamed in 5 of 5 answers
- 3Google Scholarnamed in 4 of 5 answers
- 4Notionnamed in 4 of 5 answers
- 5Consensusnamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 6Grammarlynamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 7Rnamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 8NVivonamed in 3 of 5 answers
- 9Research Rabbitnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 10JSTORnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 11PubMednamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 12Scopusnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 13Elicitnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 14Web of Sciencenamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 15EndNotenamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 16Paperpalnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 17Obsidiannamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 18JASPnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 19Pythonnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 20Overleafnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 21Trellonamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 22Semantic Scholarnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 23Google Scholar Labsnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 24PubMed Centralnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 25Litmapsnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
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The full measurement
- The position each of the 5 engines gave all 56 names.
- How many of the 5 answers named each of them.
- 94 sampled observations behind this ranking, and where the engines disagree.
- Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
- Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.