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AI · February 20, 2026

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I indexed the academic papers buried in the DOJ Epstein Files

The DOJ released ~3.5M pages of Epstein documents across 12 datasets. Buried in them are 207 academic papers and 14 books that nobody was really talking about. From what I understand these papers aren't usually freely accesible, but since they are public documents, now they are. I don't know, thought it was interesting to see what this dude was reading. You can check it out at jeescholar.com Pipeline: 1. Downloaded all 12 DOJ datasets + House Oversight Committee release 2. Heuristic pre-filter (abstract detection, DOI regex, citation block patterns, affiliation strings) to cut noise 3. LLM…

I indexed the academic papers buried in the DOJ Epstein Files launched on February 20, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,385 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Search and browse 208 academic papers and 14 books extracted from the DOJ

Buried across hundreds of thousands of government-released pages — emails, legal filings, financial records — are scholarly papers spanning psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, law, economics, and more. JEEScholar indexes academic papers and books found within the DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein Files and the House Oversight Committee release. All documents are public federal records. We extract, identify, and catalog these papers and books so researchers and the public can find them. Every document from the DOJ Epstein Files (Datasets 1–12) and the House Oversight release is downloaded and converted to searchable text. Heuristic filters scan for academic signals…from jeescholar.com

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The DOJ released ~3.5M pages of Epstein documents across 12 datasets. Buried in them are 207 academic papers and 14 books that nobody was really talking about. From what I understand these papers aren't usually freely accesible, but since they are public documents, now they are. I don't know, thought it was…

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