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How to Use Deep Search

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Written by Allison Elechko
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Deep Search is a powerful research agent that conducts full literature reviews across 220 million academic papers in just minutes. It helps you critically explore a topic, identify major findings, surface counterpoints, and get a structured understanding of the field.


How does Deep Search work?

It works just how a researcher approaches a topic! Deep search breaks down your question into multiple sub-questions, runs up to 20 unique targeted searches, and synthesizes a detailed literature review of the top findings. Here's what happens behind the scenes:

  1. Breaks down your question into multiple sub-questions

  2. Runs up to 20 targeted searches related to your topic

  3. Reviews over 1,000 papers to select the most relevant ones

  4. Synthesizes a structured literature review based on the top ~50 papers

The report follows the structure of a traditional literature review complete with introduction, methods, results, and discussion. It also includes interactive visuals that:

  • Show the consensus among the research

  • Highlight key authors

  • Extract key claims and their supporting evidence

  • Reveal potential research gaps


How to run a Deep Search

  1. Start a new search here

  2. Toggle on Deep mode using the search mode dropdown

  3. Enter your question and submit your search

  4. Wait a few minutes while Deep Search conducts and synthesizes results


How to copy or export the Deep Search report

Use the Export button to download or copy/paste your analysis into Word, Docs, Notion, or Obsidian, with tables, charts, citations, and headings all preserved.

  1. Submit a query with Deep mode

  2. Scroll to the bottom of the report

  3. Click Export

  4. Select 'Copy text', 'Copy with citations', or 'Export as PDF' depending on your needs


Example Searches


Deep Search Availability

Deep Search is available to all users during our beta period:

  • Free Plan: 3 Deep Searches per month

  • Premium Plan: 100 Deep Searches per month

Note: Limits may change after the beta period.


Troubleshooting

Q: What does the checkmark icon within the in-line citation mean?

A: This means that the full text of the paper was used for our analysis. No checkmark means the abstract was used.


Still need assistance? Contact us at [email protected] or via the Support Chat.

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