Discovery

Map a paper's neighbourhood of related and referenced works.

Powered by OpenAlex's open citation graph, Discovery surfaces the works connected to a paper: both what it references and what references it, so you can see how a topic fits together and where the important contributions sit. Visualising a field's structure this way often reveals influential papers that never appeared in keyword searches.

Begin with any paper you already trust.

Paste a DOI or type a paper's title and Discovery does the rest. There is no complex query language to learn; start from a seminal work or your own reading and let the connections guide you to what you have been missing. Even partial titles work, so you can start exploring from a recommendation or a reference you noticed in a bibliography.

See both directions of the conversation around a paper.

Find the foundational works a paper builds on and the newer studies that extend it. Following both directions helps you trace a field's development and avoid blind spots in your literature review. This bidirectional view is especially useful for spotting emerging consensus and understanding which claims have been challenged or built upon.

Save the papers you find straight into your Flowcite library.

When Discovery surfaces a relevant work, add it to your library in a click, ready to read, cite and ground your writing. Discovery, reading and citation all live in the same workspace. Every paper saved through Discovery is immediately available to the Copilot, turning exploration directly into source-grounded writing.