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Overview

Qiewen Academic is an AI academic agent launched by the FudanNLP team, positioned as an intelligent literature search and reading tool for research scenarios. It supports directly describing research questions in natural language, and the AI conducts retrieval based on intent understanding, filtering more relevant results from a massive volume of papers rather than only doing keyword matching.

According to information on the official website, Qiewen Academic has indexed about 360 million papers, covers 20+ disciplines, and maintains daily updates with newly added papers. In addition to search, it also provides Zotero-like knowledge base management, document chat, paper subscriptions, and frontier tracking capabilities, making it suitable for literature research, reading foreign-language papers, and organizing personal research materials.

Main Features

• AI Academic Search
  Supports natural language questions. The system can understand research intent and break questions down into more precise retrieval conditions, helping users locate highly relevant literature.

• Full-Text Search and Intent Verification
  It does not rely only on keywords, but also combines paper metadata and retrieval verification mechanisms to improve result relevance and traceability.

• AI Full-Text Translation
  It can translate foreign-language papers with one click, preserving formulas, charts, and original formatting as much as possible for convenient Chinese-English side-by-side reading.

• Knowledge Base Building
  Supports uploading PDFs and categorizing literature to form a personal research knowledge base, and allows AI Q&A around document content.

• Zotero-like Management System
  Provides citation and material management capabilities for convenient centralized management of research materials and saved papers.

• Paper Subscriptions and AI Feeds
  Users can set research directions and filtering conditions, and the system will proactively push new papers and frontier developments in relevant fields.

Pricing

According to public information, Qiewen Academic offers a free trial and paid plans:

• Free Plan
  Unlimited quick searches, 3 deep searches per day, 50 academic Q&A entries per day, 50,000 characters of AI indexing, and 1GB of storage space.

• Plus Plan
  RMB 30/month; includes unlimited quick searches, 20 deep searches per day, 200 academic Q&A entries per day, 1 million characters of AI indexing, 10GB of storage space, and paper subscription benefits.

• Pro Plan
  RMB 105/month; includes unlimited quick searches, deep searches, and academic Q&A, full-library full-text indexing, 50GB of storage space, paper subscription benefits, and unlimited AI Survey.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is Qiewen Academic?
  It is an AI academic assistant based on intent understanding, designed for research workflows such as paper search, reading, organization, and frontier tracking.

• Will it generate false citations?
  The official website states that its retrieval is verified based on metadata from genuinely published papers, emphasizing that recommended results are verifiable and from real sources.

• How is it different from traditional academic search platforms?
  The main difference is that it supports natural language questions and intent decomposition, not just keyword matching, making it more suitable for retrieving complex research questions.

• Can it be used for free?
  Yes. The platform provides a daily free trial quota, and some deep search capabilities refresh daily.