Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions. Scholar Labs is powered by AI to act as an advanced research tool, helping you tackle questions that require looking at a subject from multiple angles.

It analyzes your question to identify key topics, aspects and relationships, then searches all of them on Scholar. For example, let’s say you’re looking to find out how caffeine consumption might affect short-term memory. Scholar Labs could look for papers that cover the relationships between caffeine intake, short-term memory retention and age-specific cognitive studies to gather the most relevant papers. After evaluating the results, it identifies papers that answer your overall research question, explaining how each paper addresses it.

Google Scholar Labs is now available to a limited number of logged-in users.