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Best agent for academic literature review

Finding, reading and synthesising scientific papers.

Leader

Narrow lead

Gemini 4 Argon

Index

93.5

Lead

+1.5

% ahead

1.6%

over Claude Fable 5.1.

Full ranking

Task index, 0 to 100. Bars are scaled to the field, so small gaps look small.

  1. 1
    Gemini 4 Argon
    93.5

    Reads figures, tables and equations best.

  2. 2
    Claude Fable 5.1
    −1.592

    Best synthesis and critique.

  3. 3
    Elicit
    −5.588

    Systematic review workflows.

  4. 4
    GPT-6 Astra
    −5.588

    Strong on quantitative papers.

  5. 5
    Consensus
    −9.584

    Evidence summaries across studies.

Key takeaways
  • 1Gemini 4 Argon leads on reading papers with figures and tables.
  • 2Use specialised tools for search, frontier models for synthesis.
  • 3Always open the paper before citing it.

Recommended setup

Elicit or Semantic Scholar for discovery, then upload PDFs to Gemini 4 Argon or Claude for synthesis and critique.

Prompts that work

Paper critique

Summarise this paper's question, method, key results (with numbers) and limitations. Then assess: is the evidence strong enough for the headline claim? What would a sceptical reviewer ask?

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