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An AI-powered academic search engine that answers scientific questions with evidence extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers. The Consensus Meter aggregates findings across studies so you see whether the literature agrees, disagrees, or is mixed — with every claim traceable to a source.
An AI-powered academic search engine that answers scientific questions with evidence extracted directly from peer-reviewed papers. The Consensus Meter aggregates findings across studies so you see whether the literature agrees, disagrees, or is mixed — with every claim traceable to a source.
Consensus is a research-grade AI search engine purpose-built for academics, clinicians, and evidence-driven professionals. Instead of returning a list of links or a ChatGPT-style paragraph, you ask a natural-language question and Consensus retrieves the most relevant peer-reviewed studies, extracts the specific findings, and shows a 'Consensus Meter' that summarises what the collective literature says: yes, mostly yes, mixed, mostly no, or no. Every claim is linked back to the underlying study, so you can trace an answer to its source without hallucination. The corpus covers 200M+ papers across biomedicine, social science, computer science, engineering, and more, sourced from Semantic Scholar and other open databases. Free users get unlimited searches; Premium unlocks 'Copilot' (a longer-form GPT-style synthesis with citations), unlimited AI summaries, and Studies Snapshot for individual papers. Consensus is used by clinicians for evidence-based medicine, PhD students for literature reviews, and journalists fact-checking scientific claims. It is a strong, focused alternative to Elicit and SciSpace for people who want the answer plus the paper, not just the paper.
Consensus uniquely focuses on surfacing scientific consensus from peer-reviewed research, using its Consensus Meter to show agreement levels across studies. This approach is invaluable for evidence-based decision making and combating misinformation. The scope is narrower than general research tools, but for answering 'what does the science say?' questions, it's purpose-built and effective.
A signature visualization that shows the proportion of analyzed studies answering Yes, Possibly Yes, or No to a research question. The meter is generated by a custom-trained AI classifier that reads study findings and aligns them with the user's query, providing an at-a-glance read on the state of evidence.
An AI research assistant that generates custom written summaries answering specific research questions, with every claim grounded in cited papers. Copilot can draft contribution analyses, comparison tables, and literature review sections from scratch using the underlying corpus of 200M+ papers.
Each paper in search results includes an AI-generated snapshot showing key findings, sample size, study design (RCT, observational, meta-analysis), and population details. This allows rapid screening of dozens of papers without opening each PDF, dramatically accelerating literature triage.
Papers are tagged with rigor signals from SciScore, journal impact information, study design classifications, and citation counts. Filters let researchers narrow to high-quality study types like systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and large RCTs to surface the strongest evidence first.
AI-generated comparison tables extract structured data points across multiple papers — interventions, outcomes, sample sizes, populations — into a single sortable view. This feature mirrors workflows researchers traditionally build manually in Excel for systematic reviews, completed in seconds.
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2026 updates include enhanced team workspaces for collaborative research, expanded GPT-4 Copilot capabilities with longer-form synthesis output, refined methodology quality weighting using updated SciScore signals, improved Study Snapshots with richer methodology extraction, and broader institutional integrations through the Enterprise tier.
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