Consensus

What is Consensus?

Consensus searches peer-reviewed literature instead of the open web and summarises what the studies actually found. Ask a question in plain language and it returns findings ranked by study type, sample size and recency, alongside a plain-language answer and links back to the papers. Features like the consensus meter show how much agreement exists across the literature on a claim, which is exactly the signal that Google-style search cannot give you. It is aimed at researchers, clinicians, students and anyone making a decision that ought to rest on evidence rather than blog posts.

Last updated: 2026-09-20. This site only provides an index; for exact features, pricing, and licensing, see the official website.

Key features

• Natural-language search across peer-reviewed papers rather than web pages
• A consensus meter showing how much of the literature agrees with a claim
• Filters by study design, sample size, year and journal
• Plain-language summaries backed by links to the original studies
• Saved searches and folders for ongoing literature reviews
• Study-level detail so you can judge quality rather than trust the summary

Pros & cons

Strengths

• Filters genuine research out of the noise that dominates general search
• Shows disagreement across studies instead of a single confident answer
• Summaries are unusually readable for non-specialists

Watch out for

• Coverage favours biomedical and social sciences
• Full-text access often still depends on your institutional subscriptions
• Abstract-only summaries can miss important methodological caveats

Best for & use cases

literature review, evidence-based claims, academic research and clinical questions

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