A list of titles is not an answer
Keyword search returns ranked papers. You still have to open each one to learn what it actually says.
AI academic search
Research a topic. Get a cited literature review.
Ask a focused research question. Felo reads across arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, CNKI, J-STAGE and more, then writes a structured review with every claim linked to its source paper.
Built for researchers, powered by verified citations
Covers arXiv · PubMed · Google Scholar · Semantic Scholar · CNKI · J-STAGE
Why another academic search
Existing tools stop where the real work starts
Most researchers still spend the first day of a review fighting their search tools instead of reading papers.
Literature reviews take weeks
Cross-checking thirty papers for methods, results and limitations is slow, repetitive, and easy to get wrong.
AI citations you cannot trust
General chatbots fabricate references. You cannot use their answers in a thesis or a submission.
Non-English research is ignored
English-first engines miss CNKI, J-STAGE, DBpia and other regional databases where important work is published.
What Felo does differently
Built for people who actually read papers
Four capabilities work together so that one query produces something you can cite, not just something you have to re-read.
Targeted literature review
Describe the question, the scope and the depth you need. Felo reads across the relevant papers and writes a structured review section by section.
Multilingual academic search
One query reaches English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean sources. Felo translates abstracts and keywords so you do not miss regional research.
Verifiable citation trail
Every sentence in the review links to the exact paper and passage it came from. One click opens the original PDF or page.
Paper speed-reading
Each cited paper comes with a focused summary of methods, findings, limitations and contribution, so you can decide what to read in full.
How it works
From a research question to a cited draft in one run
Three steps. No database hopping, no stitching results together by hand.Ask a research question
Write it the way you would brief a colleague: the topic, the angle you care about, the time range, and the languages to cover.
Felo searches across databases
Queries run in parallel against arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, CNKI, J-STAGE and other sources, in the languages you asked for.
Get a cited review you can verify
Read a structured answer with numbered citations. Click any number to jump to the paper, the passage and the publication metadata.
Use cases
Where researchers actually use it
These are the situations our early users keep coming back for.
Literature review writing
Open a new thesis chapter or a grant proposal with a solid review draft covering the key papers, debates and gaps in the field.
Tracking the newest research
Before submission or review, verify the latest work on your topic, including preprints on arXiv and bioRxiv from the past month.
Cross-language evidence
Integrate Chinese, Japanese and Korean research into an English paper, or let an English-speaking team see the Asian research landscape.
Cross-disciplinary exploration
When a topic sits between two fields, Felo searches both at once and shows how each literature frames the same question.
What users say
Built with researchers in mind
I stopped opening twenty tabs. I ask one question and get a review with citations I can actually verify against the PDFs.
The multilingual search is the real unlock. My students can finally see the Japanese and Korean work on materials science that Google Scholar buries.
I wrote my literature review chapter in a week instead of a month. Every citation traces back to a real paper, so my supervisor trusts it.
I used to paste abstracts into ChatGPT and pray the citations were real. Now I get a review with working links to the original journals.
For a cross-disciplinary project I searched economics and climate science in one go. Felo surfaced papers I would have missed in either database alone.
As a first-year grad student I had no idea where to start. Asking a research question and getting a cited overview gave me a map of the field in an afternoon.
FAQ
Academic search questions
Direct answers about databases, citations, languages and how the review is generated.Google Scholar returns a ranked list of papers. Felo reads across the most relevant papers and writes a structured review with numbered citations, so you start from a draft instead of from a search result page. Many researchers use both: Scholar to browse, Felo to summarise.
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