Transparent scholarly retrieval
Search by the idea—not only the exact words.
Ask a research question or enter a title, author, venue, or DOI. PaperMetrix combines lexical precision with semantic similarity and shows the evidence behind the ranking.
01BM25Exact concepts
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02SPECTER2Semantic meaning
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03Hybrid-RRFEvidence fusion
Built for research questions
One search surface, three kinds of evidence.
Start broad, inspect why each paper ranked, then save useful evidence as a seed for future recommendations.
Describe the information need
Natural-language questions, exact titles, authors, venues, and identifiers are supported.
Inspect ranking evidence
See matched terms and the component rank contributed by each retrieval channel.
Turn results into a trail
Save papers, revisit them, and use explicit feedback to study recommendation behavior.