# lifan0127/ai-research-assistant

Aria is Your AI Research Assistant Powered by GPT Large Language Models

Repository: https://github.com/lifan0127/ai-research-assistant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ai-research-assistant
Language: JavaScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ai-assistant, research-paper, zotero, gpt, large-language-models
Last push: 2025-04-01T04:03:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 38/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 14, release rhythm 40, longevity 89
- inputs: {"age_days": 1255, "days_push": 519, "days_rel": 682, "gap_med": 18.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1726, forks 116 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.166595+00:00)

## What it is
Aria is a Zotero plugin that brings GPT-powered AI assistance to reference management, letting researchers chat with their library items, PDFs, and collections. It supports drag-and-drop referencing, autocompletion of Zotero metadata, GPT-4 Vision analysis of PDF areas, and saving chats as notes and annotations.

## Use cases
- chat with research papers in my zotero library
- summarize academic pdfs with gpt-4
- ask questions about a collection of references
- analyze figures in papers with vision models
- save ai chat answers as zotero notes and annotations
- get help writing literature reviews from my library

## When to choose
- you already use Zotero for reference management and want integrated AI assistance
- you need to query and summarize papers directly from your library
- you want GPT-4 Vision analysis of figures or annotated PDF regions

## When to avoid
- you don't use Zotero as your reference manager
- you need a fully local/offline assistant since it requires OpenAI GPT-4 API access
- you need support for non-OpenAI LLM providers

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: chatbot, rag, nlp, llm-inference, pdf
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, education, developer-tools, pdf
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: zotero-plugin, gpt-4, research-assistant, academic-writing, chat-with-pdfs, openai, desktop

## Member repositories
- lifan0127/ai-research-assistant (main) score 38

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.166595+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:32:32.654495+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lifan0127/ai-research-assistant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.166595+00:00, sha e23c478c804a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.