firecrawl-research-papers

Use firecrawl research search-papers (or the firecrawl_research_search_papers MCP tool) to run semantic search over paper abstracts. Retry with alternate query framings when results are thin, then expand strong hits with related-papers.

Use firecrawl research related-papers with the seed paper IDs and an intent, choosing mode similar, citers, or references. This expands from strong anchors into the relevant paper family instead of stopping at one result.

The index is strongest in biomedical and life-science literature from PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, plus arXiv preprints in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Coverage outside those sources is thinner, so general web search and scrape are the fallback.

No. Passing categories research to firecrawl_search only filters ordinary web search to research-affiliated sites like PubMed and arXiv. It returns web pages without abstract search, citation expansion, or in-body passages; use the firecrawl_research_* tools for paper work.

The paper index holds abstracts with full text reachable per paper, but coverage outside PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv is thin. For leaderboards, whitepapers, and industry reports, fall back to general Firecrawl search and scrape.