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The place where scholarly research meets its audience

Annotia surfaces open-access academic papers, translates them into plain language with AI, and gives researchers, students, and curious minds a home to discuss what the science actually says.

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The Problem

Academic research is broken for everyone except academics

Billions of dollars of publicly funded research sits behind paywalls, buried in jargon, and discussed only in the narrow corridors of academia. The knowledge exists. The audience exists. The bridge doesn't.

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Most research is paywalled
The majority of peer-reviewed journals charge $30–50 per article. Publicly funded research, locked away from the public.
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The rest is unreadable
Open access papers are written for specialists. A PhD in the field is often a prerequisite just to understand the abstract.
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Discussion happens nowhere
Twitter threads, obscure forums, private email chains. There is no serious, structured home for public engagement with research.
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Bad science spreads unchecked
Preprints go viral before peer review. Retractions are invisible. Nobody is watching the watchmen.
What Annotia Does

Everything a paper deserves.
Nothing it doesn't.

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AI Summary — Three Layers Deep
Every paper gets a structured AI summary: what they studied, how they studied it, what they found, and how confident we should be. Plus a plain-language jargon guide and a real-world implications section that answers the question everyone actually has — so what?
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Transparent & Correctable
Every AI summary is clearly labelled, cites the specific sections of the paper it draws from, and carries a prominent flag button. The community can report errors. Verified summaries earn a community badge. We treat AI as a tool, not an oracle.
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Structured Discussion
Comments require source citations for disputed claims. Researchers can verify their institutional affiliation for a credibility badge. Authors can respond directly. Upvoting surfaces quality, not just popularity.
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Community Confidence Score
Every paper carries a live confidence score based on peer review status, pre-registration, sample size, community flags, and methodological quality signals. A single number that tells you how much weight to give a finding.
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Retraction Tracking
Integrated with the Retraction Watch database. When a paper is retracted, its page is automatically flagged, all saved users are notified, and the confidence score updates immediately. Bad science doesn't quietly disappear here — it gets marked.
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Preprint Pipeline
New papers from PsyArXiv, bioRxiv, arXiv and medRxiv are added daily with clear preprint warnings. Be part of the conversation the moment research drops — not six months later when it hits the press.
How It Works

From dense paper to rich discussion
in seconds

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Paper is added
Via DOI, PDF upload, or our daily preprint pipeline. Metadata, authors, and status are automatically fetched.
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AI reads it
Claude generates a structured three-layer summary — plain language overview, jargon guide, and real-world implications.
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Community scrutinises
Researchers, students, and curious readers discuss the paper. Claims require sources. Quality floats to the top.
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Score updates live
The community confidence score evolves as discussion deepens, flags are raised, and the paper moves through peer review.
Launching With

Psychology & Behavioural Science

We're starting with the field that needs this most. The replication crisis made psychology research the most publicly scrutinised discipline in science. Annotia gives that scrutiny a proper home — structured, sourced, and searchable. More fields coming soon.

✓ Psychology & Behavioural Science Neuroscience — Coming Soon Nutrition & Public Health — Coming Soon Economics — Coming Soon AI & Machine Learning — Coming Soon Education Research — Coming Soon Climate Science — Coming Soon
"The goal of science is not to produce papers. It is to produce knowledge. Annotia exists to close the gap between the two."
The Annotia Manifesto · 2026
Our Commitments

Built on trust.
Transparent by design.

AI is always labelled
Every AI-generated summary is clearly marked. We never let machine output masquerade as human expertise. Every summary can be flagged and corrected.
Open access only
We will never host or link to paywalled content. Every paper on Annotia is legally freely available. Full stop.
Sources are mandatory
Disputed claims in comments must cite a source. Opinion is welcome. Unsupported assertion of fact is not.
Preprints are always flagged
No paper that has not been peer reviewed will ever appear without a prominent, unmissable warning. Clarity is non-negotiable.

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