Updates August 2025: There will now be more dialogue-based interactions in Keenious. You can type in questions or filters in a chat. The chat can also suggest prompts to guide you on your way forward in the search process. The chatbot is programmed not to perform analyses or generate text for use in responses, but rather to help make the search process more intuitive. This update is for both the online version, and the Word-addin. If you already have this in your Word program, it will be automatically updated.
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Keenious is a recommendation tool that uses AI to analyze your text, and suggests scholarly papers based on an algorithm. This tool can provide a search result list that contains sources that may not appear on your database search result lists, often including a few surprises.
This tool is not meant to replace the literature search, but act as an additional way of finding sources. Research shows that Keenious should be used alongside database searches, as there is little overlap in results.
Keenious may provide keywords (topics) that you can utilize in your literature search in Oria or databases. Keenious may also act as an aid at the end of the writing. If you perform an analysis of your (almost) completed text, you can look through the suggestion list and see if you have missed anything during your search prosess.
Left: Here you can see a response to a query in Keenious. The main topics from the results list are summed up here. To view the result list you can click the purple box in the text.
Right: The filtration options are show here. You can filter by Open access, year published, cited by count, authors, journals, conferences og topics. You may also choose in which language you want the results, regardless of the language your own text is written in. If you write in a filter request in the text box instead, the filtration will be visible here (read Tips & Tricks below for more info).
Frequently asked questions:
By filling out this form you can have the program added to your Word program. This connection will only be made if you use your Feide-login to log on to Word. It may take 24 hours to acquire the add-on. You can also use it in your browser here, no download required.
Keenious is an addition to your "literature-finding-toolkit". It utilizes your whole text to suggest articles, instead of keywords. Once you have acquired the add-on, you can open a document in Word, choose the Keenious tab in the top, and press «Explore using text».
In the results list you can click on a title to read the abstract. Click on the "Check USN access" button to see if we have access to the whole article.
You can also view "Topics" instead of articles. Here are a list of topics that explain some of the main terms used in your text. (Articles from your results list will also have these topics attached to them).
To copy your reference you can click on the citation marks in the top of the article you have opened.
If you wish to mark some articles as "Favourites", you can click on the star at the top of the article. This requires that you have logged in with a Keneious-user.
More search tips from Keenious' own website here.
This tool may be of use to you at the start of the writing process. You can explore a new subject using the "Topics" suggested.
This tool can be useful if you are at the beginning of your writing and want to get to know a subject area. Here you can read more about the topics (Topics) that are suggested, and explore articles that have been written on the topic. If you are at the end of a writing process, this can also be a useful resource. You can, among other things, mark paragraphs that you would like a little more material on, and see if anything comes up that you have not already discovered in your literature searches.
This should only function as a tool in addition to searches in Oria and databases. It is still necessary to perform searches yourself, based on words and synonyms that you find in your problem. This process is important for getting to know your subject area, and this is where you will find most of your sources. Keenious is intended as a supplement to this process, and as a tool to help you along the way.
With this new update (August 2025), you can now "talk" to the search process in a more natural language. If you type in search limitations in the text box, you can see that the limitations have been activated in the right hand margin aswell - and can be removed from there if you change your mind.
You could type in that you only wish to see qualitative studies, or only want results from the last 5 years, or that you would like a list of suggestions for keywords that you may use to search in one of our databases.
In the results list, you can click on “Filters” to set a limit on years. In the results list, you can also select the “Topics” tab. Here you can read briefly about the keywords that describe the articles in the hit list.
If there are any particular sections you want to focus on, you can highlight the text. Under the search box in Keenious, it will say “Highlighting text”, and you can then click on the search button again to generate recommendations that emphasize the highlighted text.
When you click on an article, you can scroll down to see “Similar articles”, i.e. articles that are similar to the one you have already clicked on.
https://help.keenious.com/article/35-how-to-search-with-keenious
