Best Plugin for Scientific Literature Research?

Sharing the case of a friend who was looking for the original paper to link ovarian cancer to ADAM17.

Prompt: search the science plug-in for the oldest paper regarding ADAM17 in conjunction with ovarian cancer

The model reply was irrelevant unfortunately.

In addition to your concept to identifying the most relevant papers from a set of possible correct answers, I am a strong proponent of querying the user to help the model fulfill the request. Especially in a multi-step look-up, compare, analyze scenario like this one.

In many other contexts I’d say that a single better prompt could suffice but in this scenario I don’t see it happening unless the model can access a specific dataset for Gynecology/Cancer with the user supporting the model to evaluate the results.

Looking for “the original paper” is a typical use case but it’s also time consuming, if not challenging and often our specialists at the library handle these searches. If I recall correctly you are working with a University? They may be able to provide more specific pointers for effective search strategies.

PS. My function to reply to specific comments has stopped working. I am referring to @elmstedt . Sorry for the ping.

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