Frequently asked questions.

Yes. Wonders is a guided workspace for literature reviews, from the search strategy to the bibliography. Whether AI tools are allowed is decided by your instructor or institution, so check your course policy. We also have plenty of tutorials to help you get started.

Doctoral students in our National University deployment self-reported saving nine hours a week (post-deployment survey, March 2025); we have no site-wide average to quote. Quick overviews can be done in 10–15 minutes, and tasks like building search strategies, summarizing papers and formatting citations take minutes rather than hours.

Graduate students, academic researchers, and professionals who need to review literature efficiently. Whether you’re writing your first thesis or your fiftieth paper, the guided workflow adapts to your experience level.

Yes. Your projects and data are private by default. We don’t share your research with other users or use it to train AI models. You can delete your data at any time.

Wonders AI searches two open scholarly indexes, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar — over 320 million scholarly works — plus Google Patents. That covers all major fields from humanities to STEM, including peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, preprints, and technical reports. Wonders does not run an index of its own.

Wonders is a complete workspace. Many researchers juggle several tools: one for search, Zotero for references, Google Docs for notes. Wonders brings these together with step-by-step guidance suitable for beginners and experts alike — from topic ideation through final export.

No. Wonders is a research assistant, not a paper generator. It helps you find, organize, and understand sources — it doesn’t write papers for you. AI summaries and answers link to their sources so you can check them and cite the papers themselves.

That depends on your institution and your course: AI policies differ, so check yours. Wonders does not generate essays or papers. It helps you find and organize sources, and AI summaries link to the paper they came from. Students at Stanford, Cambridge, MIT, and 100+ other universities use Wonders.

Wonders is optimized for desktop — literature review involves comparing sources side-by-side, which works best on larger screens. You can access your projects on mobile for quick reference, but we recommend desktop for active research.

Wonders supports the full literature-review process — from topic exploration to organizing what you find to citation export. You control each step, and every AI insight is traceable to its source.

Wonders handles references automatically. As you save papers, they’re added to your project bibliography. When ready, export as BibTeX, RIS or CSV, or save the project to Zotero.

Wonders searches OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar live, so new papers appear in Wonders as soon as those indexes add them.