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Pros and Cons of Using AI for Literature Searching: Evidencehunt

Evidencehunt

Evidencehunt searches for and sysnthesizes PubMed abstracts in response to questions.  The free version searches significantly fewer abstracts than the paid, but the summary is beneficial for anyone trying to get a quick answer to a question.

Pros

  • Limits sources to PubMed abstracts, resulting in more consistent results than some other AI tools
  • Answers are readable and cite PubMed records, even highlighting the part of the abstracts that are used.
  • You can regenerate answers by selecting references.
  • Enterprise plans allow institutions to upload documents that can be searched.

Cons

  • Must subscribe to Pro plan to search whole PubMed database

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