Filters help you find exactly the papers you're looking for. 🐰 Use dates, article details and keywords to narrow down your map, then quickly trim the papers you don't need, or save the ones you do.
How to filter your results
In Grow, click Filter.
At the top, choose whether to find articles that match or don't match your filters.
Set any Article Details and Keywords you want to use.
The list updates to show the matching papers. Select the ones you want, then choose Save or Remove.
Article details
Publication Date: show papers published between two years.
Open Access: show only papers that are free to read.
SJR Quartiles: show papers from journals in particular quartiles. Q1 journals are the top 25% in their field.
H-index: set a range to focus on work with more, or less, research impact.
Keywords
Add keywords to find papers that mention them. You can combine them:
And: papers must contain all the keywords in that row.
Or: add another row to also include papers that contain other keywords.
Not: leave out papers that contain a keyword.
Not sure where to start? Open Suggested Keywords and click any theme ResearchRabbit has spotted in your map to add it.
Match or don't match
Most of the time you'll want papers that match your filters. Switch to don't match to find the papers that fall outside them, for example to spot off-topic papers you'd like to remove.
Trim or save papers
Select the papers you want from the list. Switch between Selected and All to check your choices, or click Clear to start again.
Save keeps the selected papers.
Remove trims them from your map.
When to use filters
Focus on recent work, or on papers from high-impact journals
Explore a sub-topic or niche within your map
Check whether you've missed anything important
Clear out papers that aren't relevant to your review
💡 Tip: start broad, then narrow down step by step. Adding too many filters too early can hide useful papers.
Common questions
Can I use filters on the free plan?
Filters are part of ResearchRabbit+. On the free plan, you'll see what filters can do and an option to upgrade.
Is this the same as filtering in Analyze?
They use the same filters. In Grow, filters work on the papers in your list so you can trim or save them. In Analyze, they highlight matching papers across your whole citation network around your seeds. See How to filter articles in Analyze.