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Pros and Cons of Using AI for Literature Searching: Gemini Deep Research

Gemini Deep Research

Gemini Deep Research is a tool that allows you to generate indepth research reports involving multiple reasoning steps.  You can prompt Gemini to search in PubMed and PubMed Central or in academic sources as one way to limit for the most part to scholarly sources.  It can search Google Scholar.

Pros

  • Free to use several times per month in free plan; unlimited in paid plan
  • The reports are quite indepth and useful.
  • Sometimes creates tables in its reports

Cons

  • May be biased towards Open Access sources
  • Although Gemini cites sources within the reports, it is probably a good idea to check if the information is actually in the source cited.

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