Discovery & Synthesis
From a question to a literature review.
Search the world's literature in one box, follow the citation graph to find what you missed, then turn a pile of papers into a structured comparison table — automatically.
Start freeAttention is all you need
Vaswani et al. · 2017 · 98k cites
Deep residual learning for image recognition
He et al. · 2015 · 210k cites
BERT: pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers
Devlin et al. · 2019 · 92k cites
AI synthesis matrix
One search, every database
Query Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and CrossRef at once — deduped and ranked by citation count. Add anything to your library in a click.
Follow the citation graph
From any paper, jump to its references, the papers that cite it, and related work — so you find the foundational and the cutting-edge.
AI synthesis matrix
Pick a handful of papers and Folio extracts method, sample, findings and limitations into a structured table you can drop straight into your manuscript.
Grounded, every cell cited
Each cell of the matrix is grounded to its source — a literature review you can trust, not a hallucinated summary.
How it works
Search
Type your question once. Folio queries Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and CrossRef together, dedupes, and ranks by citation count.
Follow the trail
From any paper, jump to its references, the papers that cite it, and related work — surfacing both the seminal and the brand-new.
Synthesize
Select a handful of papers and Folio builds a structured comparison matrix you can drop straight into your manuscript.
What you get
Questions, answered
Which databases does it search?
Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and CrossRef at once — merged, deduplicated and ranked, so you’re not running the same query in three different places.
Is the synthesis matrix trustworthy?
Each cell is extracted from and grounded to its source paper — it’s a structured reading aid, not a free-form summary that might drift from the source.
Can I use the matrix in my paper?
Yes — it inserts as a captioned, cited table in your manuscript and exports cleanly with your document.
Which plan includes Discovery?
Discovery & Synthesis are part of the Fellow and Chair plans.
Find everything. Miss nothing.
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