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Write papers, reviews and theses with your sources in one library, citations from real scholarly records and a second reader before you submit.

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Okafor & Lindqvist, 2022 · cited 48 timesScores fell by 9% after nights under six hours.Cited
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Does this sound like you?

  1. Your references live in three apps, and none of them is the one you write in.

    How Papero helps: Import .bib or .ris files from your reference manager into one Papero library.

  2. You lose an afternoon reformatting citations for a different journal.

    How Papero helps: Switch between APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, Harvard and IEEE.

  3. Your co-authors are busy and the deadline is not.

    How Papero helps: Get an AI peer review before you send the draft round.

The guide

Where AI helps in research writing, and where it does not

AI writing tools are good at some parts of research writing and risky at others. Knowing which is which keeps your work fast and trustworthy.

Sources and references

Finding candidate papers, keeping references in order and formatting them are slow, mechanical jobs. Tools help most here, as long as every citation points to a real record you can open.

The risk is the opposite case: a model writing citations from memory. Those can look plausible and not exist, which is why citations should come from a catalogue or your own library.

Drafting from your outline

A first draft that follows your outline and section prompts can save time, especially for methods and background. It is a starting point, not finished text.

What a model cannot know is what your data show and what they mean. Results and interpretation are yours to write, and every suggested sentence is yours to check.

A second reader before submission

An AI reviewer can point out unclear arguments, missing limits and questions a referee is likely to ask, quickly and at any hour.

It does not replace your co-authors or the journal's reviewers. Use it to fix the obvious problems first, so human readers can spend their time on the hard ones.

The usual way vs with Papero

The usual way: Keep references in one app and the draft in another.

With Papero: Import .bib or .ris files into a library next to your draft.

The usual way: Reformat citations for each new journal.

With Papero: Switch the citation style for the whole document.

The usual way: Wait for co-authors before anyone reads the draft.

With Papero: Get an AI peer review first, then send it round.

What researchers use Papero for

  • Literature review

    Find the papers, keep them in one library and turn them into a review that cites every claim.

  • Find sources

    Find papers for the sentence you are writing, look up a DOI and spot retracted work.

  • Research paper writing

    Go from an IMRaD outline to a first draft with real references in one of five citation styles.

  • Thesis writing

    Plan chapters, keep versions and review the whole thesis before you hand it in.

What you get

  • One library

    Import .bib or .ris files, or import from Zotero with your own API key, on any plan.

  • Peer review

    An AI reviewer's report with a verdict, strengths, weaknesses and questions. Free includes 3 reviews a month, Plus 50.

  • Styles and Word export

    Five citation styles, IEEE included, and a double-spaced manuscript layout with a title page and page numbers.

  • Cited drafts and .bib or .ris exportPlus

    Suggestions and drafts that carry citations, and your sources exported as .bib or .ris.

Papero has a free plan, and Plus costs 12 a month or 96 a year with a 14-day money-back guarantee. See pricing

Questions people ask first

Does Papero replace my reference manager?

It can hold every source you cite, with search and collections. If you keep using Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote, import their .bib or .ris exports whenever you need them. Papero does not keep syncing with those apps.

Which citation styles are supported?

APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard and IEEE.

Can I trust the citations?

Citations come from your library or from OpenAlex records Papero found, never from a model's memory. Search results mark retracted papers and preprints, and the source check flags them again.

Is my unpublished work safe?

Your documents are never used to train AI models. Text you send to an AI feature is processed by OpenAI, which does not use it for training.

What does Plus add for research work?

Plus adds cited suggestions and drafts, a readable and exportable reference list, .bib and .ris export of your sources and higher limits, including 50 reviews a month instead of 3.

Where does AI help most in research writing?

In the slow, mechanical parts: finding candidate papers, keeping references in order, turning an outline into a first draft and getting a quick second read. The research and the interpretation stay with you.

Should I disclose AI use in a paper?

Check your target journal's policy. Many ask authors to disclose AI help and do not accept AI tools as authors. Papero's AI use statement gives you a starting point.

Can I write in Papero with co-authors?

Papero documents are personal, with no shared editing. You can export the document to Word and work on it with co-authors from there.

Write it with sources you can check

Start free, no card needed. Move to Plus only when you want the full reference list and higher limits.

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