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AI · May 21, 2026

PaperTrace

Your AI copilot for scientific research

PaperTrace launched on May 21, 2026 with 4 votes, #2,419 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

PaperTrace is purpose-built for scientific evidence workflows. It retrieves papers, extracts claim-level evidence, compares findings across studies, and generates structured reviews with verifiable citations. Its strength is trust at the evidence layer: every output stays tied to source literature, giving researchers and teams faster synthesis with traceability, accuracy, and auditability.

PaperTrace helps researchers run systematic literature reviews with AI-assisted search, screening, structured extraction, narrative synthesis, and exports.

Type in your research question. PaperTrace searches 250 million+ papers, screens every abstract, and drafts your synthesis in minutes. PaperTrace is AI literature review for researchers who need a traceable workflow from research question to evidence table, synthesis, and export. Use PaperTrace to search PubMed and additional literature sources, screen abstracts, fetch open-access full text, define extraction schemas, synthesize findings, identify research gaps, and export review artifacts. PubMed/MEDLINE is the primary source and works for any topic searchable there. Pro and above unlock multi-source search across Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints, and…from papertrace.co

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