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.

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01BM25Exact concepts
02SPECTER2Semantic meaning
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.