Research discovery
Describe your research topic, add the filters you need, and review scholarly records labeled by how well they fit, with citation counts, journal quartiles, and open access status. Then export the list you want to read.
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Overview
Assistemia's Article Finder is an academic article finder for students and researchers who need relevant literature on a defined research topic. Instead of asking you to assemble a keyword string, it takes a short study topic and an optional description of what you are looking for, generates the search query from them, and labels the returned records by how closely they fit your topic. In practice, it works as a scholarly article search you can filter and export: each result shows its title, authors, year, and source, plus an abstract, citation count, Scimago journal quartile, open access status, and DOI link where the record provides them. Use it at the start of a literature review, when a thesis chapter needs supporting studies, or when you want a quick view of recent work on a question before reading in depth. Results can include reviews, conference papers, and other publication types as well as journal articles, so check each record's type and source before you cite it.
Explore the Article Finder tutorialCapabilities
Enter a study topic of 2 to 30 words and, if you like, a description of 5 to 400 words covering the context, methods, or populations you care about. The AI research paper finder turns them into a search query, so you do not need to write Boolean syntax. Optional filters for publication year, publication type, field of study, journal quartile, open access, minimum citations, author, and source journal narrow the search before it runs.
Records that an AI model judged against your topic are labeled Relevant or Partially Relevant, and further records ranked without that judgment are labeled Ranked. Each card shows authors, year, source, an abstract where available, citation count, Scimago quartile, open access status, and publication type. View Details adds the publication date, DOI, field of study, and authors, and flags a record marked as retracted.
A Filter & Sort panel narrows the loaded results by keyword, relevance, author, publication type, field, source, quartile, year, citation count, and open access, and sorts them by relevance, date, or citations. Export the filtered view or every result as a CSV file with titles, authors, sources, abstracts, citation counts, quartiles, DOIs, and relevance labels. Past searches stay in your search history.
How it works
Write a specific study topic, such as the intervention, outcome, and population you are studying, and add a description when the topic alone could be read several ways. Set only the filters you need: a strict quartile or citation threshold can remove useful records, and the quartile filter drops venues without a Scimago match, such as most conference proceedings.
Select Search Articles; a search usually takes a minute or two. Start with the Relevant results, then check the Partially Relevant ones for adjacent work. Read each abstract and the record's details before deciding whether it belongs on your reading list.
Use the Filter & Sort panel to focus the list, export it as a CSV file, and select View Paper to open a record's DOI page. Whether you can read the full text there depends on the publisher and your library's access.
Inputs, outputs & coverage
Article Finder is a discovery tool for scholarly records, not a full-text library. These are the practical limits to know before you rely on a result list.
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Run the same topic-based search with every filter and review the top results of each search. Each search uses part of the Free plan's monthly allowance, and the Pricing page lists the current terms.
Premium removes the results cap and shows the full Boolean search query and Mini AI Literature Summary, which helps when you are building a comprehensive reading list.
Frequently asked questions
Practical answers about publication types, broad searches, full-text access, and what changes between Free and Premium.
Contact our teamResults can include journal articles, reviews, conference papers, books, book chapters, reports, letters, editorials, and other types offered in the Publication Types filter. In that filter, Article means journal articles only; conference papers have their own type. Leave the filter empty to include every type, or select only the ones you need. Each result card shows its publication type, which matters because not every type is peer-reviewed: an editorial or a report is useful context, but it is not the same kind of evidence as a peer-reviewed study.
Make the study topic more specific, for example by naming the population, setting, or outcome, and use the description to say what you do not want as well as what you do. Before searching, add a publication year range, publication types, or fields of study. After the search, the Filter & Sort panel lets you keep only Relevant results or filter by source, quartile, citation count, or open access without running a new search. Unlike a general academic search engine, the relevance labels give you a first pass at sorting close matches from adjacent work.
Article Finder shows bibliographic records and abstracts, not full texts. When a record has a DOI, View Paper opens the DOI page, which usually leads to the publisher's site. Whether you can read the article there depends on its access status and your institution's subscriptions. The open access badge and the Open Access Only filter help you find openly available versions, but a DOI link never grants access to a paywalled paper. Records without a DOI have no View Paper link, so search for them through your library.
Both plans use the same search, filters, sorting, and CSV export. On the Free plan, each search shows up to 10 results, and the generated search query and Mini AI Literature Summary are only partly visible. Premium searches show every result the search returns, 20 per page, together with the full Boolean query and the full summary. If a Free search finds more than it can show, a banner below the results says so. See Pricing for current plan terms.
Article Finder
Describe what you are studying, let the research paper finder return relevance-labeled scholarly records, and export the list you want to read.