Iris.ai Explore tool is a content-based recommendation engine, and therefore it needs sufficient context to be able to build the similarity connections between the search input and output results. That is why the Iris.ai Explore tool asks you to write a problem statement or paste a link to an existing paper.

The reason why Iris.ai is interested in the context of your research topic, is that we have found especially in interdisciplinary research projects, that users are a) struggling to identify the right keywords, not having deep domain expertise in all fields, and b) finding that while the citation system is good for research graphs, the popularity ranking in some search engines work against their effort in broad understanding of a problem space.

Iris.ai is a tool with a built-in contextual understanding. You are no longer required to know the search terms of the topic you’re exploring - Iris.ai will find the right connections for you.