Guides

Journal notes on the words the product uses. Not a substitute for reading the papers.

• What DOI, title, and abstract mean in OpenAlex

  OpenAlex stores a scholarly work as a title, a DOI when one exists, and often an abstract. Here is what each field is, and how conscRAG uses them.

• Why a target-centered graph helps you see related concepts

  A target-centered graph puts your paper in the middle and related concepts on rings. That layout makes neighbor methods, limits, and analogies readable at a glance.

• How conscRAG’s target-centered graph and retrieved works connect

  Figure 2 is the OpenAlex corpus. Figure 1 is the knowledge graph extracted from those titles and abstracts. One hop through references feeds both.

• How conscRAG retrieved works and findings connect

  Each finding must cite two to four evidence triples copied from the graph. Those triples come from retrieved titles and abstracts, not from invented papers.

• Why peer review still matters when you generate research ideas

  conscRAG findings are drafts with graph citations, not peer-reviewed papers. Peer review is still the check on novelty, method, and overclaim.

• What “graph-grounded research ideas” means

  Graph-grounded means each idea must reuse evidence triples extracted from retrieved papers. The graph is the constraint, not a decoration.

• Why conscRAG uses OpenAlex, and whether more sources are coming

  OpenAlex is the live scholarly index conscRAG already uses. We do not host a paper library. Other providers are possible later if coverage fails; they are not required to Run.

• Where conscRAG findings can actually help

  Findings are useful as reading lists, meeting seeds, and first drafts of a follow-up. They are not results, grants, or peer review.

• What title, keywords, DOI, arXiv id, and PMID mean in Find a paper

  Find a paper is one box. Type a title fragment, keywords, a DOI, an arXiv id, or a PMID. conscRAG resolves identifiers first, then fills title, DOI, and abstract.

• How conscRAG processes a run, and whether we save it

  A run profiles your paper, retrieves OpenAlex works, builds graph contexts, and writes ranked findings. Signed-in runs are saved to your account. Guest share links last 30 days. Find a paper is not saved.