Tools
Literature search
Type a query the way you would say it — an author, a few words of the title, a topic, a year or a range. The right query is built for each database and the results appear below, on this page.
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How it works
- Your query is read in your browser into author, title, topic, collaboration and dates, shown as chips you can correct.
- Each database — INSPIRE-HEP, arXiv, Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar — gets it in its own syntax, directly from you: nothing passes through this site.
- Precise (default) keeps a record only if its title, abstract, keywords or collaboration contain your words; an experiment name such as JUNO, DUNE or NOvA also needs a neutrino context. Broad keeps weaker matches.
- Ranking is by how well a record matches your query; citations only break ties, and the counts come from INSPIRE alone.
- If INSPIRE finds nothing, the constraints are relaxed one at a time, and the status line says which one went.
- A database that does not answer is marked with a badge; the others' results still appear.
- NASA ADS and Google Scholar have no open search API: the buttons above open the same query there.