Unusual use case but I write literature reviews for French R&D tax cut system, and we specifically need to: focus on most recent papers, stay on topic for a very specific problematic a company has, potentially include grey literature (tech blog articles from renowned corp), be as exhaustive as possible when it comes to freely accessible papers (we are more ok with missing paid papers unless they are really popular).
A "dedicated product workflow" could be about taking business use cases like that into account.
This is a real business problem, the Google Scholar lock up is annoying and I would pay for something better than what exists.
Hey, I'm not OP, but I'm working on what seems to be the exact problem you mentioned. We (https://fixpoint.co/) search and monitor web data about companies. We are indexing patents and academic papers right now, plus we can scrape and monitor just about any website (some social media sites not supported).
We have users with very similar use cases to yours. Want to email me? dylan@fixpoint.co. I'm one of the founders :)
This can be seen as technology watch, as opposed to a thesis literature review for instance.
Google Scholar gives the best results but sadly doesn't really want you to build products on top of it : no api, no scraping.
Breaking this monopoly would be a huge step forward, especially when coupled with semantic search.
