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How to Use Deep Search

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Written by Allison Elechko
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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


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.


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

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