Advanced search

Advanced search filters are a powerful hidden feature in "Find papers". You can use them to search within a particular journal, restrict your search to highly-cited papers, and more! Since they're a hidden feature (not shown in the Elicit app), you'll need to read up here to learn how to use them.

Use-case: search within a journal

Add +journal:"INSERT JOURNAL NAME HERE" to your query, like:

3D printing +journal:"Journal of Medical Devices"

Use-case: highly cited papers

You can search for papers with more than a certain number of citations with >. Like:

How can I reduce hallucination when using a language model? +citations:>100

Make sure not to put quotation marks around your filter, i.e. do +citations:>100 instead of +citations:">100"

Use-case: open-access only

Add +oa:true to your query to search for only open access publications, like:

What is the safety profile of acetaminophen? +oa:true

Use-case: papers by a specific author

Add +by:"INSERT AUTHOR FULL NAME HERE" to your query to search for papers written by a specific author. Like:

How do cognitive biases affect human behavior? +by:"Daniel Kahneman"

Nobel-prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman is a coauthor on these papers.

The name must be an exact match for this search to work. If you can't find an article, try some other versions such as first initial and last name ("D. Kahneman"), or track down one of their papers by title in Elicit and see how their name is formatted on that paper.

Use-case: find a specific paper

Search by title like +title:"INSERT TITLE HERE"

Or by doi like +doi:"INSERT DOI HERE"

You can search like this to check which papers are available in Elicit (though beware of false negatives -- if the paper has a slightly different title in Elicit, this search won't find it).

Combining filters

You can combine as many filters as you like:

What is the safety profile of acetaminophen? +oa:true +citations:>500

Keywords

Filter on keywords by simply including the keyword with a + or -. For instance, to filter out papers about livestock and focus on humans:

How effective is deworming? -cattle -sheep -horses

"or" for filters

You can search for papers that match one filter or the other like this:

How can I reduce hallucination when using a language model? +(citations:>50 year:>2023)

All filters

Filter	Description	Example
title	paper title. Must be an exact match, so try different spelling or capitalization if you don't get results	+title:"CRISPR Provides Acquired Resistance Against Viruses in Prokaryotes"
dblp	dblp ID; see https://dblp.org/
arxiv	arxiv ID; see https://arxiv.org/	+arxiv:"2310.10627"
mag	Microsoft Academic Graph ID; see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-academic-graph/	+mag:"2117539524"
ssid	Semantic Scholar ID; see semanticscholar.org . Note that you can retrieve the Semantic Scholar id of a publication from its URL on Semantic Scholar, e.g. the id for https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Compute-Trends-Across-Three-Eras-of-Machine-Sevilla-Heim/927a5203363fc9c8ba48599dc749cf0cc647444b?citedSort=relevance&citedPage=99 is 927a5203363fc9c8ba48599dc749cf0cc647444b	+ssid:"927a5203363fc9c8ba48599dc749cf0cc647444b"
pubmed	PubMed ID; see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/	+pubmed:"25315507"
pmcid	PubMed Central ID; see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/	+pmcid:"9204096"
doi	DOI; see https://www.doi.org/	+doi:"10.1126/science.1138140"
journal	name of the journal. Must be an exact match, so try different spelling or capitalization if you don't get results	+journal:"Journal of Medical Devices"
by	name of the author. Must be an exact match	+by:"Daniel Kahneman"
year	year the study was published	+year:<1920
citations	number of papers that cite this paper	+citations:>500
references	number of papers cited by this paper	+references:>500
oa	is this paper open access?	+oa:true