Research Reports

A Research Report is a structured overview of the evidence on a specific question. It includes a methods section (with a mini-PRISMA flow), a tables-of-summaries section, frequency counts across study types, and the synthesis itself, with every claim pinned to a sentence in the source paper.

The pipeline runs the same four stages a human reviewer would, just faster and with full provenance tracking:

• 1. IdentificationAcademe searches the unified scholarly index for papers matching your question, pulling hundreds or thousands of candidates.
• 2. ScreeningTitle/abstract screening applies auto-suggested criteria (plus any criteria you add) to trim the pool. Every include/exclude decision is logged.
• 3. EligibilityFull-text assessment for the shortlist. Papers that fail an eligibility criterion are moved to the excluded list with a rationale.
• 4. Inclusion and synthesisThe included papers are summarized into tables and a narrative synthesis, with sentence-level citations throughout.

Reports are built to hold up under dense configuration. Control:

• Screening criteriaPopulation, intervention, study type, date range, language, outcome measure, or whatever else your review protocol uses.
• Individual paper choicesOverride a screening decision on a specific paper and Academe respects it through the rest of the pipeline.
• Extraction schemaDefine the columns you want in the summary tables, such as effect size, sample size, intervention details, or risk-of-bias items.
• Report lengthBrief executive overview or long-form synthesis. Reports can cover up to 80 papers.

A report is not a snapshot. Modify any step by changing the question, tightening a criterion, or adding recent papers, then regenerate the report in place. Pair with a research alert and you have a living review that refreshes automatically as new literature appears.

Reports draw from the same unified index as search: source coverage spanning 400 million+ scholarly works, clinical trials, plus any documents you have uploaded to your library.

• Biology"What biomarkers are currently used for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome?"
• Policy research"What is the estimated impact of AI on employment in the next decade?"
• Environment"UK net-zero incentives compared to other European approaches."
• Clinical"Efficacy of GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss in patients without type 2 diabetes."

• How are reports different from other deep-research tools?Most deep-research tools treat each question as stateless prose generation. Academe reports run a structured review pipeline with explicit screening, extraction, and citation, so the output is auditable, not just plausible.
• How do you rank sources or determine quality?A combination of semantic relevance to the question, citation weight, recency, and peer-review status. Venue quality surfaces next to each cited paper.
• How long does it take to get a report?Most reports complete within a few minutes. Long-form reports covering 80 papers take longer because they include full-text extraction.
• What data sources do you use?The unified scholarly index plus your personal library. You can also point a report at a specific collection to constrain it to a hand-curated set of papers.