Keenious
Finds relevant academic articles from your own writing or uploads.
About
Keenious works backwards from your text: upload a published paper or an unpublished draft and it recommends related research articles drawn from a curated subset of OpenAlex (100M+ publications with complete metadata, non-retracted, DOI-registered). It is unusual in having no word limit on analyzed text, and it ships as an MS Word add-in so the Research Explorer lives inside your document while you write — several university libraries, including Copenhagen Business School, formally recommend it. The free tier is narrow (around 10 suggested articles, 2 PDF pages analyzed); paid plans expand from there. Suggestions are similarity-based, so treat them as discovery leads, not endorsements.
What it can do
- Full-text-based article recommendations
- MS Word add-in with Research Explorer
- Citation-count and date filtering
- Unlimited analyzed text length
- OpenAlex-sourced, DOI-registered corpus
Setup
- Create a free account at keenious.com
- Upload a paper or paste your draft text
- Review suggested articles and filter by citations or date
- Install the Word add-in for in-document research
Prerequisites
A free account; the Word add-in for the in-editor workflow.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Formally recommended by university libraries (Copenhagen Business School); OpenAlex-sourced corpus (100M+ publications); Full-text-based recommendations and Word add-in are distinctive; Free tier narrow (10 suggestions, 2 PDF pages); paid pricing not prominently published. Manual review: facts checked against search sources read this session; no hands-on testing, so metrics tier. License: Proprietary SaaS.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Formally recommended by university libraries (Copenhagen Business School); OpenAlex-sourced corpus (100M+ publications)
- · Full-text-based recommendations and Word add-in are distinctive
- · Free tier narrow (10 suggestions, 2 PDF pages); paid pricing not prominently published
- · manual review: facts checked against search sources read this session; no hands-on testing, so metrics tier
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.