research-lit

You can find relevant research papers for a literature review by searching local Zotero libraries and Obsidian vaults, then expanding to web and arXiv sources. The tool de-duplicates results and extracts bibliographic metadata with summaries to produce a structured table and synthesized narrative.

Yes, you can search your local Zotero library and arXiv simultaneously for related work. The tool parses a topic argument, honors optional source directives, and de-duplicates results across local and online academic sources into a unified structured literature table.

The best way to summarize what specific academic papers claim is to query academic sources like Semantic Scholar and DeepXiv for metadata extraction. This yields a structured table detailing methods, key results, and relevance alongside a synthesized narrative summary.

Yes, Semantic Scholar integration provides venue and journal metadata for paper discovery. By specifying explicit source directives, the tool queries Semantic Scholar to enrich the structured literature table with detailed publication venue and journal information.

You generate a structured literature table from local PDFs and online academic sources by parsing a topic and scanning connected databases. The tool extracts paper titles, venues, methods, key results, and relevance scores to build the table and a narrative landscape summary.

Limitations of automated paper summarization for a literature review include the reliance on explicit source directives for advanced discovery. Without specifying sources like OpenAlex or Exa, queries default to local libraries and basic web searches, potentially missing deeper citation graph data.