Research Index

Name: Research Index
Creator: Research Index

Find scientific papers, inspect metadata, read relevant passages and follow citation relationships.

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Find up to 10 research papers published from 2023 through 2025 about retrieval-augmented generation evaluation, with abstracts and paper IDs.

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "firecrawl-research-index",
    capability: "search",
    options: {
      k: 40,
    },
  },
});

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paperId	primaryId	title	abstract	authors	createdDate	updateDate

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Trial site population diversity checkUse when a clinical trial diversity officer or feasibility lead checks whether a study's sites can enrol a population that reflects who has the disease. Lists the trial's sites from ClinicalTrials.gov, profiles each site's county by race, ethnicity, age and language from Census data, and reviews published evidence on disease burden by group, producing a site diversity scorecard.7 toolsOpen

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Quality, speed and cost, last 24 hours, across every agent call to Research Index through Alexandria.

Quality: 100%; Calls answered without a tool error
Speed: 3.4 s; 95% of successful calls finish faster
Cost: 0 credits; Firecrawl credits per call
Calls: 393; Last 24 hours, every Alexandria user

Quality and speed of each tool, last 24 hours
Tool	Quality	Speed	Calls
Search papers	100%	3.4 s	226
Read paper passages	100%	2.2 s	146
Inspect paper	100%	239 ms	20

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