This challenge highlights how AI tools can support academic research by providing citation context and AI-generated summaries.
Scite AI is a powerful research tool that helps users analyze the influence and context of academic papers. It not only shows how often a paper has been cited, but also categorizes those citations as supportive, contrasting, or neutral—helping researchers quickly assess the scholarly conversation around a topic.
Scite also generates AI-powered abstracts and research summaries, which can streamline the literature review process. By evaluating these outputs, students and educators can develop deeper source analysis skills—learning to critically assess whether summaries accurately represent the original studies. This activity highlights how AI tools like Scite can enhance research workflows while fostering essential academic literacy.
Challenge
Scite AI provides citation analysis and research summaries for academic papers. These summaries are generated using AI and are intended to help researchers understand a study quickly.
For this challenge, you’ll explore how well Scite AI performs by assessing the quality of the AI-generated abstract and the usefulness of the citation breakdown for a paper in your field.
Instructions
Share your experience in the comment box—include the topic you searched, your assessment of the summary’s quality, and whether you would recommend Scite as a research tool in your field.
- Go to Scite AI.
- Search for a research topic in your field of interest (e.g., climate change, language acquisition, machine learning).
- Select a paper and read the AI-generated abstract or summary.
- Review the citation breakdown to see how the paper has been cited—supporting, contrasting, or mentioning.
Reflect and Share
What does this challenge reveal about the role of AI in teaching and learning? Try it out and share what you discovered in the comment box below, whether it’s your final product, a reflection, or a surprising insight.
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