Find the paper you didn’t know to search for.
A keyword search never surfaces everything. From any result, follow its citations forward and back — the work that builds on it, the work it stands on — until the picture is complete, then turn the pile into a structured review.
Start freeBERT: pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers
Devlin et al. · 2019 · 92k cites
Highly accurate protein structure prediction (AlphaFold)
Jumper et al. · 2021 · 46k cites
An image is worth 16×16 words: transformers for image recognition
Dosovitskiy et al. · 2020 · 22k cites
Start with one search
Query Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref and arXiv at once — deduped and ranked by citation count. It’s the free starting point, not the whole journey.
Follow the citation graph
From any paper, open its Cited by and References — the work that builds on it and the work it stands on, ranked by influence. This is how you reach the seminal and the brand-new that a keyword search would never return.
A Synthesizer that reads across them
Open the Synthesizer and it thinks through your results out loud, pointing you to the primaries and the gaps — and it can only cite the real sources Folio retrieved, never an invented one.
Turn the pile into a review
Select the papers that matter and Folio bundles them into your library and opens a literature-review document — seeded with a synthesis matrix to fill and real citation chips already in place.
How it works
Search
Type your question once. Folio queries every major database together, dedupes, and ranks by citation count — free to start.
Follow the graph
From any paper, open Cited by and References to walk the literature forward and back. Add anything worth keeping to your library in a click.
Synthesize
Let the Synthesizer read across your picks, then bundle them into a seeded literature-review document — structured and cited, ready to write.
What you get
Questions, answered
How is this different from Folio Search?
Search casts the wide net — one query across every source at once. Discovery is what you do next: from a paper you found, follow its citations forward and back to reach the work a keyword search never surfaces, then structure it into a review.
Where does the citation data come from?
OpenAlex — keyless and open. From any paper with a DOI, Folio pulls the works that cite it and the works it references, ranked by citation count so the influential ones surface first.
Does the AI invent papers or findings?
No. The Synthesizer can only cite the real results Folio retrieved, and the review document’s synthesis matrix is a structured scaffold you fill from your sources — Folio doesn’t fabricate cells or summaries.
What’s free, and what needs a plan?
Searching and following the citation graph are free. The AI Synthesizer is part of the Fellow and Chair plans.
Find everything. Miss nothing.
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