I'll answer with the caveat of I am not fully "up to date" on all the different AI tools as there seems to be a new one every 7.25 seconds :) I interpreted your question as asking if you can search a question and get references (rather then search a set of papers specifically and then find out where it came from). From what I've seen - not yet in the way that I personally would want to see it function. The one i know of that is somewhat similar to what you're describing is elicit.com/ However, I personally did not prefer it. I would imagine that access to paywalled articles is the primary limitation at this point. So if all you need is A reference, a tool like that might work. Yet, if you want THE references, something like that may not be ideal because it may not have access to whatever the reference is (in this example, ~a refers to any article no matter how little cited or no matter what journal its in, whereas ~the refers to the reference you probably actually want to cite but may be behind a paywall). However, if you're asking if you can upload a set of papers and then ask questions and find out where that information came from in those papers, I would think noteboookLM or a number of other ones will do that.
I should also mention that Perplexity will grab scientific references and link them if it has access. I have started using perplexity instead of a more traditional 'search engine' when I have questions related to academic things specifically because it will summarize + add references where the information is sourced from.
is there any tools that can provide us an answer with backed up scientific reference??
I'll answer with the caveat of I am not fully "up to date" on all the different AI tools as there seems to be a new one every 7.25 seconds :) I interpreted your question as asking if you can search a question and get references (rather then search a set of papers specifically and then find out where it came from). From what I've seen - not yet in the way that I personally would want to see it function. The one i know of that is somewhat similar to what you're describing is elicit.com/ However, I personally did not prefer it. I would imagine that access to paywalled articles is the primary limitation at this point. So if all you need is A reference, a tool like that might work. Yet, if you want THE references, something like that may not be ideal because it may not have access to whatever the reference is (in this example, ~a refers to any article no matter how little cited or no matter what journal its in, whereas ~the refers to the reference you probably actually want to cite but may be behind a paywall). However, if you're asking if you can upload a set of papers and then ask questions and find out where that information came from in those papers, I would think noteboookLM or a number of other ones will do that.
I should also mention that Perplexity will grab scientific references and link them if it has access. I have started using perplexity instead of a more traditional 'search engine' when I have questions related to academic things specifically because it will summarize + add references where the information is sourced from.