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The AI research workspace for PhD scholars.

Chat with your papers, manage citations, check for plagiarism, and write your thesis - in one place, built for Indian PhD workflows.

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Upload your research papers and organize them into folders. Every PDF is full-text indexed so you can search across your entire library in seconds.

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AI Chat

Ask questions in natural language and get answers sourced directly from your uploaded papers. Every response cites the exact page it came from.

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Citations

Import from BibTeX or RIS, auto-extract references from PDFs, look up DOIs, and export in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, or Vancouver.

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Manuscripts

Write in a rich-text editor built for academic papers. Auto-saves as you type, enforces submission guidelines, and keeps your team in sync.

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Peer Reviews

Assign manuscripts to reviewers, collect structured feedback, and track the entire review cycle without leaving your workspace.

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Plagiarism Check

Run a similarity check against all documents on the platform before submitting. Catch unintentional overlap while you still have time to fix it.

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Built for every stage of research

From first-year PhD scholars to lab directors - one workspace for your entire workflow.

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The authors employed a mixed-methods approach combining semi-structured interviews with quantitative survey data across 12 institutions. [p.12]

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Roadmap

Built to grow with your research

Here's what's available today and what we're actively building next.

Available now

6 live integrations

BibTeX

Import and export citation files

RIS

Import from reference managers

Citation Constellation

Interactive citation network map

Zotero Sync

Sync your Zotero library

Mendeley Sync

Sync your Mendeley library

Literature Reviews

Collaborative manuscript review

On the roadmap

Integrations

Google Scholar
arXiv Import
Overleaf Export
Google Drive

Features

Real-Time Co-Editing
Research Gap Finder
Paper Comparisons
Journal Suggestions

Privacy & Security

Your research stays yours

We are a subscription business. We make money when you pay for a plan, not by selling your data or mining your research.

Workspace-scoped access

Your research is scoped to your workspace. Only you and the colleagues you explicitly invite can see it. No one outside your team can access your data.

Private to your account

Your documents are only accessible to people you explicitly invite. Nothing is visible to others unless you share it.

Never used to train AI

We do not use your documents to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. What you upload informs only your own work.

Automatic backups

Your data is backed up regularly. If something fails on our end, your work is recoverable.

FAQ

Common questions

Alfred Scholar is a research platform that lets you upload papers, ask questions about your documents, manage citations, and write manuscripts - all in one workspace. It uses AI to help you find information across your library faster.
Yes. The Free plan gives you 10 documents, 100 AI messages per month, and 1 plagiarism check per month. No credit card is needed to get started. Paid plans (Pro and Lab) are available when you need more.
Upload a research paper and ask questions in plain English. Alfred searches your document and gives you answers with references to the exact sections where the information was found. It does not guess - if the answer is not in the paper, it says so.
PDF files are supported right now. We extract text, metadata, and references automatically. DOCX and LaTeX support is on our roadmap.
Your research is scoped to your workspace - only you and the colleagues you invite can access it. We never share your data with third parties or use it to train AI models. We are a subscription business, so we have no incentive to mine your research.
Yes. You can export citations in BibTeX and RIS formats right now. Export for annotations, manuscripts, and chat history is coming.
Yes. Alfred Scholar will always have a free tier. The Free plan includes 10 documents, 100 AI messages per month, and 1 plagiarism check per month. Pro and Lab plans are available for researchers who need more.
Your data stays yours. You can export your citations at any time. We will never delete your account or data without notice.

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