Scite.ai - AI for your research

Specialist Consultant Kirstin Remvig from the library's Department for Teaching and Dissemination has worked with the tool, and several employees from the library regularly hold workshops on the use of Scite.ai for both researchers and students. 

"Our approach to exploring Scite.ai has been open and explorative. As far as AI is concerned, we are all in a kind of transition phase right now, and it will probably become quite common for various search interfaces and databases to have an AI assistant," Kirstin Remvig says. 

Kirstin replies:

What is and can Scite.ai?
 "Scite.ai is an AI programme that partly functions as a citation database that only searches in the research literature. On the one hand, it contains an AI assist, where you can ask (prompt), knowing that the assistant's answers will only be extracted from actual research articles. Scite also has a number of search functions and allows you to export references etc. that are known from other research databases. In addition, it has several AI features. First, I want to highlight these options:

• You can save selected articles (in a dashboard) and then engage with the AI Assistant about the content of these specific articles. For example, you can ask the assistant to extract specific points from the texts, ask about methodological approaches or prepare reflection questions for this, and then you know that it will only answer based on the articles you have selected.
  
• It can also assess citations in positive, negative or neutral coverage. You can generate a report that shows in which section a particular article is cited in other articles, e.g. in methodology sections, discussion or results, etc."

Good tips for Scite.ai?
"The access the library has purchased for Scite allows you to try out the different features, but if you want to make full use of the product, it is a good idea to create a profile with your email. When you are logged in with your profile, you can create dashboards, connect to your ORCID and follow how your own publications are cited. And with login, your chat and search history will be saved. In addition, Scite.ai works well if you want to do citation searches rather than, or as a supplement to other search strategies. Here it has, among other things, a nice visualization of the citation grid backwards and forwards around articles".

 What should I be particularly aware of when using Scite.ai?
"SDU does not have a data processing agreement with Scite. This partly means that students cannot be required to create user profiles in order to solve an exam assignment. Furthermore, you must be careful not to upload business-critical or sensitive personal information. In addition, as with other generative AIs, you can upload files that you can work with via the AI assistant, among other things. However, please note that you may not upload material to which you do not hold the copyright. This also applies to material that you have downloaded from the library."

Help with Scite.ai

The library offers AI workshops and the AI team can be contacted if you want more info: 

• Kirstin Remvig, Thea Marie Drachen (SDU Odense)
• Peter Bue Nissen (SDU Esbjerg)
• Tobias Rask Albrecht  (SDU Kolding).

General information about AI at SDU 

• Guidance on Efficient Use of Generative AI for Administrative Tasks at SDU
• Generative AI in teaching and examination
• About AI for students at MySDU