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 freeA keyword search returns a list. The citation graph returns the shape of the literature: what a paper stands on, what builds on it, ranked by influence rather than by how well it matched your words.
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.
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