Qinyan Academic
Qinyan Academic is a one-stop AI academic research platform covering topic selection and retrieval, literature reading, auxiliary writing and knowledge base. It provides super agents, Chat PDF and 10,000 citation formats, and supports all terminals and plug-ins.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Qinyan Academic?
Qinyan Academic is an AI academic research platform covering the entire scientific research process. Officially, it claims to cover "AI topic selection, intelligent literature retrieval, literature reading, auxiliary writing, and knowledge base," and asserts that it boosts efficiency. Its differentiator lies in the "super agent"—based on a proprietary Agent architecture, users describe their needs in one sentence, and the AI independently plans, searches, analyzes, and writes the entire process autonomously. Unlike single-PDF Q&A tools, Qinyan integrates retrieval, reading, writing, citation, and team collaboration into a single workspace. It also emphasizes privacy-first and cross-device accessibility, with multi-terminal plugins and clients allowing users to resume research at any time across devices.
Who is it for?
- Graduate students and researchers who conduct literature surveys and write reviews, and need cross-database retrieval and citation management.
- Chinese and English authors who write journal papers and need citation recommendations and academic polishing.
- Research teams that co-read a research paper and need to synchronously annotate and take notes.
- Office-based scholars who write in Office/WPS and want plugins to be available at any time.
Key features
6Super Agent
Describe your research needs in one sentence, and the AI will automatically plan, search, analyze and write, supporting independent research planning.
Multi-tool Collaboration
Automatically identifies core paragraphs, charts and formulas, generates structured excerpts and knowledge notes with one click; supports resumable uploads.
AI-assisted Writing
Citation recommendation (supporting 10,000+ citation formats), automatic context completion, as well as 10+ text operations such as rewriting, polishing, expanding, and translating, plus AI diagram generation.
Six Capabilities for Literature Reading
Intelligent dialogue, content rewriting, academic polishing, full-text translation, abstract extraction, and terminology explanation.
Intelligent Literature Retrieval
Unified search across 5 academic databases, combined with a Paper Discovery Agent to filter SCI partitions and journal tags.
Collaboration & Compliance
Supports multi-person annotation and comments, encrypted and deletable files, and no participation in model training; provides browser, Office, WPS plug-ins as well as Win/Mac clients.
How to use Qinyan Academic
- First use the Super Agent to tackle a specific research question, then move to literature reading to take excerpts and notes.
- When you have numerous citation formats and strict journal requirements, use the citation recommendation and perform a second check before exporting.
- For sensitive unpublished manuscripts, pay attention to the "privacy-first" setting and confirm that your data will not be used for training and can be deleted.
- The official website shows cooperation with the Chinese Medical Association, CITIC Institute and other institutions.
- For specific functions and prices, please refer to the official website's pricing page.
- When you start using it, it is recommended to first use the free quota to run through the core workflow, confirm that the output quality meets your expectations, and then evaluate whether it is worth upgrading to a paid plan.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Qinyan Academic receives about 6.4K visits per month and ranks #3,652,764 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Search45.2%
- Direct36.7%
- Mail8.5%
- Referrals5.6%
- Social1.8%
- Other2.1%
Top countries
- China73.4%
- United States22.6%
- Taiwan, China4.0%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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