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Before using the Scite AI Assistant, adjust the settings to meet your needs. Important settings to review include requiring the use of references, choosing the large language model (LLM) to use, increasing the number of publications to consult, narrowing the date range, specifying journals to search, and more. See examples of key settings to adjust below:
1. Select Settings below the Assistant search box.
2. Select "always use references" in generating assistant responses.
3. When reviewing evidence from citation statements, consider focusing the results on specific article sections the citations come from like the Results or Discussion.
4. Changing the LLM Model used will change the results you receive. Experiment with the Model to see the benefits of the different options for your research needs.
5. Enter the name of a journal you would like Scite to search. Currently, you can only enter the name of a single journal.
Assistant Mode
Use Scite's Assistant mode to ask natural language questions, e.g., What are the newest examples of qualitative research on farmworkers' perceptions of robots?
Scite will create a search strategy - check it out for ideas for future searches.
See the references consulted to determine if these are appropriate sources, worth following up on and reading more fully. You can export the entire list of sources consulted.
Scite also generates summaries based on your question prompt. Read these summaries critically to see if the sources used actually address your question or provide meaningful context. Follow up on the references included to read the full context of the work by these authors. Notice that you can regenerate your question to get a new summary of the research on your question.
Search Mode
Use search mode much like you would a regular search engine - to look up specific items or to search by keyword. Scite uses the Semantic Scholar database and is searching the full text of open access sources, the citation statements from non-open access articles (under publisher agreements), and CrossRef. As a result, and depending on your topic, you will typically see a lot of content from international authors.
Scite search displays a citation statement representing where your keyword is mentioned before showing you the title of the source, followed by an abstract.
The search interface allows you to filter your search in many ways. Consider whether filter options like searching in specific article sections, journals, or publication types might be helpful for you.
Experiment with the options in the search interface to set up alerts, create dashboards to create groups of papers, and analyze search results for publishing trends.
Table Mode
Use table mode to analyze sources for particular characteristics like population, methods used, or outcomes in a table view. While the option to add your own sources is available in both Assistant and Table mode, it can be particularly helpful to use Table mode to analyze a set of sources you have already saved.
Enter your natural language question. Next, choose additional columns to analyze the results. Pre-set column criteria include population, limitations, and geography.
You can also add in a custom column with your own criteria. Give the column a name and provide instructions for your criteria. Notice that you can specify column criteria that have yes/no responses as well as sentence summaries.
To keep the table you have developed, use the export option below the search box.
Add or collect groups of papers in a dashboard that you can then use for a more targeted analysis. Open the dashboard feature from the Product menu.
You can create new dashboards by connecting to your Zotero or Mendeley library, adding a CSV with DOIs of articles you are interested in, or from sources you have found in Scite search mode.
Once you have added sources to a dashboard, you can then do a search in Assistant mode using just the sources in the selected dashboard.
