To take advantage of full text search, head into Search in the Papers app

Type in your query – perhaps with the help of our AI powered query builder – and Papers will begin searching for metadata and full text to fulfill your query. 

You can then import one or several of those search results directly into your Papers library with just a few clicks

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SmartCite*: Our search terms work on all platforms. This includes SmartCite, the web app, mobile app and desktop app.

General use 
Searching by default will search all the fields for you. For example, if you want to search for “Shark” all you need to do is type shark into the search box and the app will return results back to you in any field. This includes abstracts, notes you have taken, highlighted text, Journal, etc.

Searches are also case insensitive so typing shark or Shark will get you the same results.

If you are searching for a specific field you just need to start your query with that field name. For instance, if you want to search for the journal Biology input journal:biology

Note: ff you want to search for a journal or field with multiple words you will need to use quotes. journal:”Shark Diaries”. If you don’t use quotes you may get back more results as the second word is considered a search of all the fields like our first example. journal:Shark Diaries

Combining Search Terms

Combining search terms is easy as well. Just type all of your search terms with a space in between. If you are searching for all papers for Elephants and Sharks you just need a “space” but you can also use the AND query. Elephant Shark is the same as elephant AND shark. AND must be capitalized to work

So all of the above papers must include elephant and shark somewhere in the fields. If you want references about elephants or sharks you would use the OR query. elephant OR shark. OR needs to be capitalized to work.

A note on operator precedence:

When a search is parsed, operator precedence determines the order in which the Boolean operations (AND, OR, NOT) are evaluated. NOT holds the highest precedence, meaning if you have a query like elephant AND shark NOT ocean, first, any results containing “ocean” are excluded, then those results are further reduced to only those that also contain “elephant” and “shark”.

Additionally, AND takes precedence over OR. This means elephant OR shark AND ocean is effectively elephant OR (shark AND ocean). Lastly, parentheses override precedence, meaning you can explicitly control the order of operations by using parentheses in specific parts of your search query. For example, (elephant OR shark) AND ocean will first evaluate the OR condition and then AND it with “ocean”.

Ranges

If you are looking for date queries you can search the year field. If you input year:2015 this would search all the papers in the year 2015. To search for a particular month you can input added:2015-05.

The year field also supports ranges. For instance, if you want to list all the papers in the library from the year 1990 to 1993, you need to input: year:[2005 TO 2010]

You can also use a wildcard for one end of your range query. For instance, if you want to see all the papers up until 1993, you query would look like: year:[* TO 2010]

You can reverse this to see all articles after a certain time period. year:[2015 TO *]

Ranges can be used for year, ratings, added, and times_opened.

Range queries can also use relative expressions. For instance 2019 and before could be year:<=2019.

Date queries also support the now keyword. You can use this to make a SmartList for recently imported references: added:>now-7d . This will show you all of your papers that you have added in the last 7 days. If you want to see articles added in the last two months your query would be: added:>now-2M. 

We currently offer the following date options:

Parenthetical Grouping

We also support parenthetical grouping. So say you have the author of a couple of papers in mind and you know they publish in certain journals. author:john would give you too many results so try author:john (journal:nature OR journal:Shark)

Boolean Fields

We have a few boolean fields that you can choose from. The field must be true or false, for instance, flagged:true or flagged:false. The fields are: unread, flagged. So if you want to see all your flagged content simply search for flagged:true. (You can flag an item by clicking on the flag icon). 

Exists searches

The exists search query works a little differently. You can use it to see all of your papers with files. _exists_:files

You can also use it to see all of your papers with a rating attached to them. _exists_:rating

NOT Searches

Our NOT search query will search for everything but what you put. If you do not, for example, want to see your shark references you can use NOT(shark):

You can also pair it with _exists_ to find references missing attachments NOT(_exists_:files) or papers missing a DOI NOT(_exists_:DOI):

Or make a query to see if any of your references are missing authors. NOT(_exists_:author):

All supported fields

Below is a complete list of all searchable fields. For multiple words in the same field make sure to surround them with quotes. I.E. highlighted_text:”The quick brown fox”.

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Or, from the drop down menu in the text box of your search results

Once advanced searching is pulled up, you can select if you’d like your search to focus on all metadata or a specific set such as author, journal, or year of publication followed by the terms you’re looking for. For example: 

Here, we are searching for “Lexapro use for OCD”

You can search for that alone, or, add another query to make your search for specific. For example, here we have added OR “Escitalopram for OCD” 

By hitting “add” on the right-hand side, your new query is added to your original:

You can continue to add as many parameters as you’d like. For instance, here is the same example but with a specific date range added in:

And now you’re ready to search!

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at Papers Support

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Our related article feed looks at the full text of the article you have open and then compares it against our publication database including over 75 million full text articles and offers highly relevant recommendations. Note: this feature is currently only supported for articles with a DOI. 

Each related article will be linked in this section for easier access: 

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at Papers Support.

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Or, from the drop down menu in the text box of your search results

Once advanced searching is pulled up, you can select if you’d like your search to focus on all metadata or a specific set such as author, journal, or year of publication followed by the terms you’re looking for. For example: 

Here, we are searching for “Lexapro use for OCD”

You can search for that alone, or, add another query to make your search for specific. For example, here we have added OR “Escitalopram for OCD” 


By hitting “add” on the right-hand side, your new query is added to your original:

You can continue to add as many parameters as you’d like. For instance, here is the same example but with a specific date range added in:

And now you’re ready to search!

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at Papers Support

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You can select the time frame from which recommendations are pulled, change the sorting order, as well as choose which recommendations you’re getting based on the library and/or list you select. You can also select whether to receive them for articles that are open access or not, or either of the two.

Simply navigate to the Search section and then click on “Recommended”:

If you do not see any recommendations in Papers, you may not have enough articles in your library. Add more articles by drag-and-dropping PDFs directly into your library, or clicking the “+” button at the top right of the library window.

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By clicking on the magnifying glass next to the search field, you’ll get the options to include or exclude certain words from your search and even specific exactly what you’re looking for by having the app search through specific metadata in your library such as author or journal – or, alternatively, to exclude them.

For instance, using our in app search you can specific that you’re looking for an article with the word “elephant” and the author “Wesley”; as you type, you’ll notice your terms populating in more search friendly terms in the search field above:

Once you’ve entered in all your keywords, click back into the search text field, hit “enter” and your results will populate:

For more advanced searching tips, please see our article on Advanced Searching in Papers. 

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This will open the Papers search window where you can type in what it is you’re looking for. In this example, we are searching for “medications for OCD”

You’ll notice that the search is added to your “recent”searches automatically on the left hand side, but you also have the option to “favorite” this search by clicking on the star to the right of the search field at the top where you’ll be asked to name the search

Once you’ve saved your search, those results (and any other which you’ve marked as favorite) will appear under the “starred” menu on the left hand menu of the app

These saved searches, you’re able to easily monitor your favorite searches for new publications. What’s more, Papers will remember the last five new searches you’ve performed, allowing you to keep several searches going without needing to open multiple tabs.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at Papers Support

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Have a PDF?

If you have a PDF, you should first import it as a new reference by clicking on the “Add” button and choosing “Add Files”. You can then select the publication type and use the PDF preview pane to easily copy citation information from the PDF into the fields.  Be sure to click on “Save” once finished editing the record.

Otherwise use Manual Entry

If you don’t have a PDF, you can manually enter the publication by first clicking on the “Add” button followed by “Add Manual Entry“. Select the publication type and then enter in the appropriate citation information into the record fields.

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