SciSpace (formerly Typeset) is an AI-powered platform for scientific reading, discovery, and writing. Its core feature is the AI Copilot — a chat interface that lives inside any research paper and lets you ask questions about the content in plain language.
Highlight any sentence, equation, table, or figure in a paper, and the AI Copilot explains it in simple terms, provides additional context, and answers follow-up questions. This makes dense, technical papers accessible to researchers, students, and professionals who are exploring adjacent fields.
SciSpace's literature review tool searches across 200M+ papers, identifies the most relevant sources for a research question, and generates a structured review with citations. Users can also upload their own PDFs for AI analysis.
The platform includes a research discovery feed that surfaces trending papers in your field, a citation network visualizer for mapping how ideas connect across literature, and a writing assistant for drafting and formatting research papers in 40,000+ journal templates.
SciSpace is used by researchers, graduate students, academic writers, and professionals who need to stay current in their field and communicate findings clearly. With over 10 million users, it has become one of the most popular academic AI tools available.
Key Features
AI Copilot: ask questions about any paper in plain language
Highlight any text, equation, or figure for instant AI explanation
Literature review generator with 200M+ paper database
Upload your own PDFs for AI analysis and Q&A
Research discovery feed with trending papers by field
Citation network visualizer
AI writing assistant for research papers
40,000+ journal formatting templates
Use Cases
Understanding complex research papers without a domain background
Conducting literature reviews for academic theses and papers
Getting plain-language explanations of equations and figures
Discovering related papers and tracking research trends
Drafting and formatting research papers for journal submission
Asking follow-up questions about a paper's methodology