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This article highlights several AI tools that are reshaping the landscape of academia. Wordvice AI Writing Assistant offers real-time enhancements and feedback on grammar and style, as well as paraphrasing and summarizing tools. ChatGPT provides support for data retrieval, literature reviews, and idea generation. Typeset.io streamlines the writing and publishing process with predefined templates and automated formatting. Scite.ai helps with fact-checking by providing precise numbers of publications supporting or refuting specific claims. Quillbot enhances language and assists with brainstorming, and Scholarcy helps navigate research with reference extraction and summary cards. ResearchRabbit is a web application for efficiently exploring scientific papers.
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