Find academic papers for your topic
Search over 250 million scholarly works without leaving your document. Filter the results, read the abstract, and cite or save the papers you want.
Why use paper finder
One big index
Journal articles, preprints, books and conference papers from every field.
Useful filters
Narrow by publication year, citation count and open access, and sort by relevance, citations or date.
Cite as you go
Click Cite to add a paper to your text and reference list, or type @ while you write.
How it works
Search
Open Find papers and type a topic, a title or a DOI.
Filter
Set years, a minimum citation count or open access only.
Cite or save
Cite the paper in your document, open it, or save it to your Library.
What goes in, what comes out
You give it
- Keywords, a paper title or a DOI
- Optional filters: years, citation count, open access
You get
- A ranked list of papers with authors, year, venue and citation count
- Abstracts where the index has them
- Open-access links when a free copy exists
Good to know
- Results come from a bibliographic index. Some records have no abstract, and not every paper has a free full text.
- Citation counts come from the index and can differ from Google Scholar or Scopus.
An example
You enter
remote work productivity, 2020–2025, open access
WriteOrbit returns
A list of open-access studies on remote work and productivity published since 2020, sorted by relevance, each with a Cite button.
Questions
More in the help center.
Which databases does it search?
An index built on OpenAlex, which covers over 250 million works from Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, institutional repositories and publishers.
Can I search without an account?
You can browse papers on the public research directory. Searching inside the editor and citing needs a free account.
Can I find a paper by DOI?
Yes. Paste the DOI into the search box, or type it after @ in your document.
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