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Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine built on more than 220 million peer-reviewed research papers. Every answer is grounded in real, citable research. 网曝门 provides Pro access at no cost to you.
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What Pro Access Includes
Unlimited Pro Messages
The most popular feature. Ask a research question and get an AI-powered summary of up to 20 papers, with every claim linked to its source.
50 Deep Reviews per Month
Turn days of literature review into minutes. Deep Search builds a full search strategy, runs up to 20 searches, and produces a cited report drawn from up to 50 papers, complete with a research-gaps matrix.
Unlimited Study Snapshots
Click the table icon on any paper to instantly see methodology, sample size, population, and study duration — the details that tell you whether a paper deserves a full read.
The Consensus Meter
Ask a clear yes-or-no research question and the Meter instantly shows how much the evidence agrees or disagrees, with the methodology, recency, and journal quality behind each position.
Medical Mode
Narrow results to the highest-quality medical sources: roughly 50,000 clinical guidelines and 8 million articles from the top 1,000 medical journals. Ideal for nursing, health sciences, and clinical programs.
Natural-Language Filters
Say what you need in plain English, such as “only randomized trials from the last five years in top-quartile journals,” and Consensus applies the right filters for you.
Unlike a general chatbot, Consensus only responds after searching the peer-reviewed literature. It will not fabricate sources. Every result points to a real paper you can open, read, and cite.
Best Uses for Students
Consensus supports the research process; it does not replace it. You still read the papers, interpret the findings, and write your own work. Here is where it earns its place in your workflow.
1. Get Oriented in a New Topic
Start with a broad, natural-language question to learn the shape of a field before you narrow your research question. Try: “Show me a timeline of the most influential papers on [topic].”
2. Build a Literature Review Starting Point
Find foundational papers, then use the Citation Graph to trace backward to seminal work and forward to the studies that built on it. Save everything to Collections as a working bibliography.
3. Narrow to What Matters
Refine with follow-up questions and filters for study type, publication date, sample size, and journal quality. Try: “Find recent studies on [topic] with sample sizes over 100.”
4. Decide What to Read Closely
Use Study Snapshots and Table View to compare papers side by side on population, methods, and findings, so your close reading time goes to the studies that deserve it.
5. Check Your Draft Before You Submit
Upload your draft alongside your sources and ask whether the literature actually supports the claims you make. Catch unsupported claims and weak citations before your professor does.
6. Find the Counterargument
Something traditional databases cannot do: take a claim and ask, “Show me studies that disagree with this.” Strong papers engage the other side of the evidence.
A summary is a way into the reading, not around it
Never cite a paper based on an AI summary alone. Read the original, verify the claim, and follow your instructor’s guidance on AI use in each course. AI outputs are not evidence; the papers are.
Best Uses for Faculty
Faculty at other institutions have found that Consensus shifts class time away from fighting search syntax and toward the work that matters: evaluating sources, judging relevance, and weighing evidence. It is equally useful for your own research and course prep.
Shared Collections for Your Courses
Curate a reading list as a Collection and share it by link, just like a Google Drive folder. Students can read every paper and run questions across the set. A great first discussion prompt: “Find where two of these papers disagree.”
Teach the Shape of a Literature
Run one question your field considers settled and one it does not, side by side. The two Consensus Meters show students what “contested” actually looks like in a body of research.
Course Prep Outside Your Specialty
Deep Search produces a structured, cited literature review with a timeline, key authors, and a research-gaps matrix. Advisors also use the gaps matrix with students who need a thesis or dissertation topic.
A Private Library for Your Lab or Team
Upload your own manuscripts, protocols, grant proposals, and internal reports, up to 20 PDFs at a time. They stay private unless you share the Collection, and they become searchable alongside the full Consensus index.
Citation Accuracy Before Submission
Have students upload their draft with their sources and ask which claims are not supported by the papers they cited. Misrepresented sources are among the slowest problems to catch while grading; this puts the check before submission.
Make Twenty Years of Reading Searchable
Import your Zotero library, group collections included, and turn your archive of citations into a living library you can search, compare, and analyze.
Writing Consensus into an assignment?
Faculty elsewhere name it in the syllabus as a sanctioned way to use AI in research, then design the assessment so reading is graded and verified: annotated PDFs, page numbers, and a direct connection between each claim and the passage that supports it. The goal is not detection; it is making faking engagement more work than doing it.
How to Search Well: The Question Is the Skill
AI tools do not correct for the direction of your question. A leading question surfaces confirmatory evidence; a neutral question surfaces the full picture. The single most valuable habit you can build is reframing before you search.
| Instead of (leading) | Try (neutral) |
|---|---|
| Does social media cause depression in teenagers? | What is the relationship between social media use and depression in teenagers? |
| Is online learning worse than face-to-face teaching? | How does online learning compare with face-to-face teaching in terms of student outcomes? |
| Does poor sleep harm academic performance? | What is the evidence on the relationship between sleep duration and academic performance in students? |
Words like cause, reduce, worse, and harm assume an answer before any evidence has been reviewed. Add specificity about population, setting, and outcome, and your results improve further. Researchers who want a structured approach can use question frameworks such as PICO, SPIDER, and PEO, covered in the classroom guides linked below.
Learn More
Getting Started
Search modes, query formats, Boolean logic, and examples from the Consensus Help Center.
Classroom Resources for Faculty
Practical guides on framing unbiased research prompts, question frameworks, responsible AI use, and fact-checking claims.
Full Help Center
Feature guides, tutorials, and answers to common questions, updated regularly.
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