It targets questions with research answers: ask, and it returns claims from papers, sorting support, opposition and insufficient evidence, each line pairing a conclusion with a source. Judging whether a claim has research backing is far faster than general search. It reads mostly abstracts, so sample size, conditions and populations need the full paper. When studies conflict, it will not decide for you.
What it does
- Search and Q and A over an academic paper corpus
- Groups findings into support and opposition
- Each conclusion links to its paper
- Filter by year and other conditions
- Save searches and result sets
Who it is for
- Checking whether a practice has research evidence
- Scanning existing conclusions before a literature review
- Assessing the scientific basis of a popular claim
- Explaining a specialist question to someone else
How to get started
- Ask a yes-or-no question, not a broad topic
- Read the support and opposition ratio, and check years and samples
- Read three to five key papers in full before writing your own conclusion
