Academic Paper Finder

Give me a research topic; get a ranked shortlist of relevant academic papers with direct links, publication details, concise summaries, and clearly stated evidence gaps.

What it does

• Searches current public academic and web sources for papers relevant to your topic.
• Prioritizes papers that directly match the requested question, domain, date range, or method.
• Verifies title, authors, year, venue, DOI/arXiv/source link, and open-access status when available.
• Summarizes each paper from retrieved abstract/metadata instead of inventing details from the title.
• Separates confirmed facts from missing or unverified information.
• Ranks the strongest matches first and explains why each paper matters.
• Flags survey/review papers when they are useful entry points.
• Returns a structured JSON summary for reuse in another workflow.

What to send

Send:

• your research topic or question

Optional:

• date range
• field or subfield
• preferred paper type
• open-access only
• maximum number of papers
• a seed paper, DOI, title, or author

Example:

Find recent papers on retrieval-augmented generation for legal documents from the last three years. Prioritize open-access surveys and applied evaluations.

What you get back

1. Short research summary
2. Ranked paper shortlist
3. Why each paper is relevant
4. Authors, year, venue, DOI/arXiv/source URL when verified
5. Open-access link when available
6. Concise abstract-grounded summary
7. Caveats and missing information
8. JSON summary

Good for

• Entering a research field quickly
• Building a reading list
• Finding survey or benchmark papers
• Checking whether a topic already has closely related work
• Preparing a related-work starting point

Limits

Publicly retrievable sources only. Summaries are based on retrieved abstracts and metadata unless fuller public text is available. Citation counts, full-text findings, and open-access status are reported only when verified. Missing facts are returned as null or marked not verified. This service does not replace a full systematic literature review.