The review
Find the literature your paper should engage with
Refine checks your claims about originality against the published literature. When an earlier paper already did what you call new, or a result belongs to someone else, it suggests the work to cite or distinguish.
How it works
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Refine lists your claims
It reads your abstract, introduction and contributions and picks out every claim about novelty, credit or consensus.
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It searches the literature
For each claim it searches hundreds of millions of scholarly works for earlier research that bears on it.
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You see what to cite
Where it finds a real antecedent, you get a comment naming the work and suggesting how to engage with it.
Key benefits
Novelty claims that hold up
Find out whether a published work already did what you describe as a first.
Credit the right authors
Spot methods or results attributed to the wrong source.
Ideas under another name
Learn when a concept you introduce is already established under a different name.
Stronger baselines
See published methods that beat your state of the art on the same task and metric.
Contested claims
Find work that contradicts a fact you treat as settled, or real disagreement behind a claimed consensus.
Suggestions, not accusations
Each comment proposes a work to cite or distinguish. You decide what to do with it.
Example use cases
- A paper whose introduction says it is the first to do something.
- A thesis in a field you are new to.
- A methods paper claiming state-of-the-art results.
- An interdisciplinary paper where the same idea may have another name next door.
- A review article that describes a consensus.
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