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Research assistance that reads your materials.

Describe a focus and SciNodes plans the searches. Ask a question and it picks the map. Attach a cluster and the assistant answers from the full text of the papers in it.

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Fig. 00 — Term co-occurrence map, live. Move the pointer through it.

Six things the assistant does

Less tool-juggling. More reading.

Each capability sits inside the workspace, next to the corpus, the maps and your notes. Nothing is pasted into a chatbot that has never seen your sources.

01 Suggest

Describe your focus. SciNodes plans the searches.

Write what you are studying in plain language. SciNodes drafts the search strategy, runs the queries against a scholarly catalogue of millions of works, and merges the results into one list for you to review.

focus“Effects of urban green space on adolescent mental health, 2015–present”

planned4 searches · 3 catalogues · 1 merged list

result312 candidates to review

02 Question routing

Ask a question, get the right map.

Not sure which map you need? Type a research question and SciNodes picks the map type and its settings from a library of more than 120 expert-designed research questions.

question“Which papers does everything build on?”

mapco-citation · min. co-citations 3 · 6 clusters

whyfoundational works appear as hubs cited together

03 Filters in a sentence

Say which slice of the corpus you mean.

Narrow any map by year range, document type, venue, author, open-access status or minimum citations, or simply describe the subset and let SciNodes translate it into filters.

you“open-access reviews since 2020 with at least 20 citations”

filterstype: review · year ≥ 2020 · OA: yes · citations ≥ 20

04 Research assistant

An assistant that reads your project materials.

Attach a map, a cluster, a node, a publication or your own file. The assistant reads what you attached, including the full text of your PDFs and your own notes and highlights, and recognises whether you are asking about a map, about research practice, or about SciNodes itself.

attachedcluster 3 (14 publications) · 2 notes

asked“Summarise the methodological disagreements in this cluster.”

answercites 6 of the 14 publications

05 Term explanations

Select a term. Get a definition in your language.

Plain-language explanations of unfamiliar terms, available in 20 languages.

termbibliographic coupling

explainedtwo publications are coupled when they cite the same earlier work; the more they share, the closer they sit

06 Smarter PDF

Papers as clean, readable text.

Smarter PDF converts a paper into clean text the reader and the assistant can both work with, while full texts are fetched only from openly accessible locations, respecting publishers' directives.

inputtwo-column PDF, 14 pages, 3 tables

outputclean text · sections · references resolved

Four assistants

Choose the assistant that fits the task.

Atlas for the hardest questions, Nova for quick checks, and Sage, the default, for everything in between. One account, one allowance, four tiers.

ExpertAtlasFor the hardest questions.
SuperiorSageThe default.default
StandardVegaEveryday questions.
BudgetNovaQuick checks.

Term explanations — select any term for a plain-language definition in 20 languages.

Honest by design

When there is nothing to show, we say so.

Empty map? We tell you why.

If a map has nothing to show, SciNodes explains the reason and, when it can help, offers to fetch the missing data rather than leaving you with a blank canvas.

A weekly allowance on every plan.

Assistant conversations, question routing, term explanations, translations and PDF conversion all draw on an allowance that resets every week. You can see exactly how much you have used at any time.

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