Discuria is a free, open platform where researchers from every discipline and every corner of the world come together to read, annotate, and discuss academic papers — openly and collaboratively.
Academic papers are scattered across dozens of databases — arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, OpenAlex — each with its own interface and search quirks. Even when you know what you're looking for, translating a research question into the right combination of keywords across five different platforms is exhausting.
When you read a paper, the only people you can talk to about it are the handful of colleagues down the hall or in your lab's Slack channel. There is no open forum where a graduate student in São Paulo can debate methodology with a postdoc in Seoul — the conversation simply never happens.
Academic writing is dense by nature — packed with domain-specific jargon, terse derivations, and implicit assumptions. Reading a paper in isolation, with no one to ask "what does this term mean?" or "is this assumption justified?", makes the learning curve steeper than it needs to be.
Ask a question in plain language — "What methods reduce hallucinations in LLMs?" — and our AI translates it into a precision search across 200M+ papers from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, and PubMed. No keyword guesswork, no tab-juggling.
Filter by category, recency, or citation impact. Toggle a "This Week" filter to see only new publications. Switch to the interactive knowledge graph view to visually explore how papers connect — and discover work you'd never find through keyword search alone.
Open any paper and ask our Claude-powered AI agent questions right in the viewer. Get plain-language summaries, explanations of specific sections, or clarifications on methods — like having a knowledgeable colleague reading alongside you.
Every paper has inline annotations and threaded comments. Highlight a sentence to start a discussion, upvote insights, and reply to researchers across institutions — all anchored directly on the PDF.
Pin notes directly on the PDF, right next to the sentence or figure they reference. Your annotations live on the paper itself, not in a separate document you'll never reopen.
Every search and every paper you open surfaces AI-powered recommendations for related work — so you can follow a thread of research without manually hunting down references.
We believe that the best ideas in science don't come from reading in silence — they come from conversation. A comment that challenges an assumption, a question that reveals a gap, a link to a related paper you hadn't seen. These small interactions compound into real understanding.
discuria exists to lower the barrier between reading a paper and talking about it. We want every researcher — regardless of institution, country, or career stage — to have a seat at the table when the scientific community discusses new work.
The platform is free and always will be. Research should be discussed openly, not behind paywalls or within walled gardens.
Start reading, annotating, and discussing papers today — it's free.