Submission & versioning
Multi-version papers with maintained abstracts and author metadata.
PapexOpen-source academic literature platform
Submission, versioning, full-text search, subscriptions and open APIs
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Full-text search
Fast full-text indexing across titles, abstracts and authors, including mixed Chinese/English.
Open API
An open HTTP API for integrations and custom tooling.
Messages & tickets
Built-in internal messages, tickets and feedback for community support.
Co-review (peer review)
A complete co-review loop — assign, accept, submit opinion and receipt, with unified notifications.
Permissions & user management
A role-based fine-grained permission system with per-role or per-user allow / deny.
Online authoring
Edit papex.json visually and write LaTeX body in the browser, then export a source package or publish in one click.
Subscriptions & alerts
Follow categories, authors and papers; get a consolidated announcement feed with a live unread badge.
Bookmarks
Save papers for later with one click, organize them into named groups, and manage them from a dedicated collection page.
Citation analytics
Force-directed citation graphs, co-cited / co-citing / second-level references, citation counts and GB/T 7714 · BibTeX · APA export.
Bibliometrics
Per-author citation totals, H-index and co-author networks, plus publication trends and keyword co-occurrence analysis.
Tags & advanced search
User-created tags with keyword co-occurrence graphs, hot-tag cloud, and a field/time-range/sort-aware search UI.
Semantic & hybrid search
Vector (pgvector) embeddings fused with full-text ranking for meaning-aware paper discovery; silently falls back to keyword search when no embedding backend is configured.
External metadata import
One-click import from Crossref, arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenCitations with cross-source de-duplication and automatic citation backfill.
AI summaries & reviews
Pluggable LLM (OpenAI-compatible or local) TLDR summaries with per-claim provenance and confidence, plus RAG reviews of search results that cite their source papers.
Code & data links
Papers With Code-style association of repositories, datasets and websites with a paper, with auto-detected GitHub titles.
Web Push notifications
VAPID-based browser push for new papers, ticket replies and messages, with a per-user settings toggle.
Notes & reading progress
Highlights and annotations plus a reading-progress bar on the paper page, synced across devices.
Open reviews
Co-review opinions can be published to the paper page, and any two versions can be compared with an inline field-level and abstract diff.
Papex is an open-source, independent platform for managing and discovering academic literature. Self-host it or build on top of it.
A 60-second tour of Papex — submission, versioning, full-text search, community and open-source deployment.
What's new in Papex — browser-based authoring, the co-review loop, unified messages & tickets, and role-based permissions.