Reading and discovering research —
your questions answered

No. Every paper on Expertini Research is publicly accessible without registration or login. Open access means genuinely open — not open-access-with-a-login-wall.

An account is only needed for features that involve saving your preferences: bookmarking papers, following researchers, setting paper alerts, and using the AI tools.

Yes. Papers that have a PDF attached display a "Download PDF" button on the paper page. You can download any PDF without logging in.

Not all papers have PDFs — PDF upload is optional for researchers. Papers without PDFs typically have a full-text HTML version instead, which is also freely accessible without an account.

Several options:

• Browse by category: The Browse Papers page lets you filter by any of our 19 research categories using the sidebar.
• Browse by type: Filter by output type (preprint, thesis, conference paper, etc.) from the same sidebar.
• Keyword search: Use the search bar to search across titles, abstracts, keywords, and author names simultaneously.
• Paper Search tool: The Paper Search tool provides full-text semantic search with relevance ranking.

Not all — but most. Every paper displays its review status prominently on the paper page: Preprint, Peer-Reviewed, Doctoral Thesis, Conference Paper, and so on. We never obscure this information.

A preprint has not been externally peer-reviewed and may contain errors that formal review would catch. A paper labelled Peer-Reviewed has been accepted by a recognised journal — the author has confirmed this at submission. Reader critical evaluation is always appropriate regardless of status.

A free subscriber account gives you:

• Paper Alerts: Get email notifications when new papers are published in your chosen categories or matching your keywords
• Bookmarks: Save papers to your reading list for later
• Follow Researchers: Follow specific authors and get notified of their new publications
• AI Summariser: Get plain-English summaries of any abstract (5 uses per day on free plan)
• Comment and engage: Leave comments on paper pages

After registering a subscriber (or researcher) account, go to Paper Alerts from your dashboard. You can set alerts by:

• Research category — get all new papers in physics, AI, medicine, etc.
• Keyword — get papers matching specific search terms
• Author — follow a specific researcher

Choose daily or weekly digest frequency. You can pause, edit, or delete alerts at any time from your dashboard.

Every paper page has a "Cite" button that opens our Citation Exporter directly. You can export in:

• BibTeX — for LaTeX documents
• APA — for psychology, social sciences, and education
• RIS — for import into Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote
• MLA — for humanities

When citing a preprint, best practice is to indicate preprint status in your citation and check whether a peer-reviewed version has since been published.

Zotero: Export in RIS format from the Citation Exporter. In Zotero: File → Import → choose your .ris file.

Mendeley: Export in RIS format. In Mendeley Desktop: File → Import → RIS — Mendeley or Zotero. Select your file.

EndNote: Export in RIS format. In EndNote: File → Import → File. Select your .ris file and choose RefMan RIS as the import option.

Alternatively, the Zotero browser extension can import directly from paper pages — it reads the citation meta tags automatically.

Go to your profile settings (accessible from the account menu) and select "Delete Account". Your personal data is permanently removed within 30 days. Papers you have bookmarked or commented on retain your comments anonymously — the content remains visible but is not linked to your profile.

If you want a full data export before deletion, email research@expertini.com and we will provide one.