research / academic sources
Find your sources.
Describe your essay topic or project in plain words. Get back the key academic papers — and a map of related subtopics to explore, each one a click away.
only your search terms are sent — never your files
try one:
How researchers use it
- Paste your working title, research question, or a paragraph of your draft.
- Skim the related subtopics for angles you hadn’t considered — click one to pivot the search.
- Open the sources that fit, then export the lot as BibTeX or RIS into your reference manager.
Common questions
- Where do the results come from?
- From OpenAlex, an open index of over 250 million scholarly works. These are real, citable papers — not AI-invented references. Every source links back to the original.
- Is my essay private?
- Your files stay on your device — this tool never touches them. The one thing that is sent is the topic or text you type into the search box, which goes to the open OpenAlex database as a search query. Paste a topic or a paragraph, not your whole document.
- How is this different from Google Scholar?
- You describe your topic in plain language and get back both the key papers and a map of related subtopics you may not have thought to search for — then click any subtopic to dig deeper. It’s built for finding angles for an essay or project, not just one citation.
- Can I export citations?
- Yes — export any result set as BibTeX or RIS to drop straight into Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or your reference manager. Free, no sign-up.
Scholarly data from OpenAlex (openalex.org), released under CC0.