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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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Recognised automatically: surnames, quoted titles, experiment names, arXiv identifiers, and dates written as 2019-2023, 2019->2023, since 2020, before 2015, last 3 years, March 2024. You can also be explicit with a:Smith, t:"neutrino masses", and c:T2K for papers signed by a collaboration rather than about it.

The results can be re-ordered — by relevance, publication date, citations or subfield, each of them reversible — and narrowed to the subfields you want, with the buttons above them. Choosing the order before you search is worth it for the date: the databases are then asked for their most recent records, which changes which ones come back. Precise keeps only records that show your words in their title, abstract or keywords; Broad also keeps what the databases rank high on weaker evidence.

Refine the interpreted fields

Separate several with a semicolon.
Membership, not subject. An experiment name typed in the box above is treated as a topic instead — use c:T2K to force this field.

Time and discipline

Decided from the title and venue, as the subfield labels are.
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Results are filtered to physics: OpenAlex is asked for Physical Sciences only, Semantic Scholar for Physics, and a record found only by the generic databases must actually contain your query terms. Google Scholar has no public search API, and NASA ADS's requires a personal token — use the buttons under the results to open the same query there.

Try: JUNO reactor oscillation 2025 · neutrinoless double beta decay · T2K oscillation

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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.