Source finder for academic claims, paragraphs, and drafts

Paste the paragraph into Citely Source Finder and start from the claim you actually wrote. Citely helps find academic sources that may support the paragraph, then shows candidate papers, source metadata, and passages to review before you cite.

A source finder is a tool that helps turn a research claim, sentence, paragraph, or draft section into candidate sources. Citely focuses on academic source finding: it searches for scholarly papers that match the meaning of your text, not only broad keywords.

Yes. Citely works as a source finder for research notes, literature review drafts, essay paragraphs, and thesis sections. It is most useful when you know the argument you want to support but do not yet know the right paper title, author, DOI, or database keyword.

Yes. If you need to find sources for research quickly, Citely can help narrow the search from a broad topic to papers that may support a specific claim. You should still read each source and verify the metadata before using it in academic work.

Google Scholar is a search engine over academic content. It returns papers that match your keywords. Citely's source finder works from a claim, not only a keyword: paste a sentence or paragraph, and it returns papers that may support the specific argument you are making. It complements Scholar rather than replacing it.

Citely extracts the key concepts and assertions from your text, searches academic sources for papers in the relevant area, and ranks results by relevance to the specific claim. Where a result has a DOI, Citely can attempt metadata checks, though final judgment on whether a source supports your argument remains yours.

Citely can search across academic records such as CrossRef, PubMed, arXiv, and OpenAlex depending on the query and available data. Coverage varies by field, language, and publication type, so users should still read and verify the source before citing it.

Yes. This is a primary use case. Paste a paragraph or short section, and Citely can identify the claims within the text before searching for candidate academic sources.

Citely surfaces candidate papers that may be close to the claim, so you can assess whether the available evidence is strong, partial, or absent. For highly novel claims, weak source matches may mean the argument needs to be softened, reframed, or supported with primary data.

Citely can support multilingual academic source discovery where connected databases and metadata are available. Coverage is not identical across languages or disciplines, so users should verify each source before final use.