Keenious for researchers

Find the work you would not have found.

Search about 177M publications across every discipline, see what has already been done, and read the work that matters before you write.

Check whether your idea has been tested Graves et al., 2003, see where it sits in the field Contextual Fear Conditioning, and find the people working on it.

What you can rely on

AI tools can invent references and overstate what a study found. Keenious is built so you can check everything it shows you.

Every answer points to a paper you can open

Made-up references from AI tools are now turning up in published papers. Everything Keenious recommends is a real publication in its index, with a link to the paper.

Topaz et al., The Lancet, 2026

You read the paper yourself

When language models summarise a study, they tend to make its findings sound broader than they are. Keenious takes you to the paper and answers your questions about it, so the reading and the judgement stay with you.

Peters & Chin-Yee, Royal Society Open Science, 2025

Your work stays private

Prompts, messages and files are processed in the EU. They are not used to train Keenious's models or those of its providers.

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Where Keenious fits into your research

Five moments from a research project, and what Keenious does in each.

01Before you start

Has anyone tested this already?

Describe the study you have in mind in a few sentences. Keenious searches by meaning, so it finds the closest work even when it uses other terms or comes from another field. The companion points you to where to look, and you go through the list yourself.

02Literature review

Is your review missing part of the field?

A search is laid out as a map of research areas. You see every area the topic touches, including the ones outside the journals you usually read.

03Reading further

Research published in other languages

Filter a search by language to find work published in French, Korean, Turkish and more than 100 other languages. The companion can explain a paper in your own language, and its authors are often working on your question from a research tradition you have not met yet.

04Publishing

Where to submit

Open any journal to see its publisher, output, citations and h-index, whether it is peer reviewed, and its level in the Norwegian Scientific Index. Treat the level as one signal among several when you build a shortlist.

05Collaborating

Partners for a grant, reviewers for a paper

Search a topic to see who publishes on it most, then follow an author to their other papers and their institution.

Frequently asked questions

About the index, the search and your data.

Read beyond your own field

Search about 177M publications, free on the web, in Word and in Google Docs.