AIRA: AI Research Assistant 📚

AIRA (AI Research Assistant) is a Streamlit-based application designed to assist researchers in finding and organizing academic literature.

📄 Research Paper

Citation: Vakilzadeh, H., and Wood, D. A. (2025). The Development of a RAG-Based Artificial Intelligence Research Assistant (AIRA). Journal of Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.2308/ISYS-2024-041

Note: If you use AIRA in your research, please cite our work using the citation provided above.

🛠 How to Use? (Installation)

Online Streamlit App

Online Version of the application is hosted at : AI Research Assistant

Local Streamlit App

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/hamid-vakilzadeh/lit-review-assistant
   cd lit-review-assistant

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the application:

   streamlit run About.py

🌐 Links

There is an MCP version of this application as well:

• MCP GitHub Repository: AIRA-SemanticScholar
• Smithery Installation: Smithery AIRA MCP Server

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to improve AIRA. Please feel free to submit issues, feature requests, or pull requests.

📜 License

Please refer to the repository license file for usage terms and conditions.