Accelerate Your Research With AI-Powered Knowledge Maps
Atlas helps researchers organize literature, track themes across papers, and discover unexpected connections in your research corpus.
2 min read · Updated January 28, 2025
Try Atlas FreeCommon Challenges
Losing track of insights across hundreds of papers
Struggling to see patterns in your literature review
Forgetting where you read a specific finding
Manually tracking themes and connections
Information silos between different research projects
How Atlas Helps
Literature Mind Maps
Visualize themes and connections across your entire paper collection. See the field, not just individual papers
Upload 50 papers on machine learning fairness. In seconds, see them cluster by methodology: statistical approaches here, causal inference there, interdisciplinary work connecting both.
Source-Grounded AI
Ask questions across your papers and get cited answers. Research synthesis in seconds, not days
'What methodological limitations do my papers identify?' Get a synthesized answer citing Smith 2019 (p.12), Chen 2020 (p.47), and Park 2021 (p.23).
Knowledge Graph
Track how concepts connect across your research. The cross-disciplinary insights that make careers
Discover that a paper on cognitive load from psychology and a paper on UI design from HCI both cite the same foundational theory. A connection that took you 6 months to find manually.
Research Workspace
Organize multiple projects while maintaining connections. An insight from Project A might unlock Project B
Your thesis research, grant proposal, and collaborative project, organized separately but connected. That methodology critique from your thesis? Atlas surfaces it when you're writing the grant.
How Researchers Use Atlas
Popular ways to get started with Atlas
Literature Review
Organize and synthesize findings from dozens of academic papers
Grant Writing
Quickly pull relevant citations and findings for proposals
Thesis Research
Build a comprehensive knowledge base for your dissertation
Lab Knowledge Base
Create a shared repository of relevant papers and insights
Why Researchers Choose Atlas
Research is about finding patterns, making connections, and synthesizing knowledge. But traditional tools treat papers as isolated documents rather than pieces of a larger puzzle. Atlas changes this by transforming your research corpus into an interconnected knowledge base.
Taming the Literature Review
A thorough literature review might involve 50, 100, or even 200 papers. Keeping track of themes, methodologies, and findings across that many sources is overwhelming. Atlas helps by:
- Generating visual maps that cluster papers by theme
- Enabling AI-powered questions across your entire collection
- Surfacing unexpected connections between papers
Instead of endless scrolling through PDFs, you get a bird's-eye view of your research landscape.
From Reading to Understanding
The goal of research isn't just to read papers. It's to synthesize them into new understanding. Atlas's AI chat lets you query your paper collection as if it were a knowledgeable colleague:
- "What are the main criticisms of this methodology?"
- "Which papers discuss the relationship between X and Y?"
- "Summarize the key findings on this topic"
Every answer cites specific papers, so you can verify and dive deeper.
Building Institutional Knowledge
Research groups accumulate years of relevant papers and insights. Atlas helps preserve and share this knowledge:
- New lab members can explore existing research visually
- Common questions get answered by the AI with proper citations
- Insights don't get lost when team members leave
Your research corpus becomes a living, queryable knowledge base rather than a graveyard of PDFs.
Designed for Academic Workflows
Atlas understands that researchers have specific needs:
- Academic PDF parsing that handles complex layouts
- Citation-aware responses that reference specific papers
- Privacy-first approach that keeps your unpublished research secure
- Export options for presentations and publications
Frequently Asked Questions
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