About Stork

The Story of Stork

The birth of Stork originated from the embarrassing experiences of its founder, Dr. Xu Cui.

When Xu was a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, he often encountered situations where his lab colleagues were enthusiastically discussing a paper in their field while he looked completely clueless — because he had no idea about the paper at all. Looking it up on PubMed later, he would discover the paper had actually been published a year ago. An even more embarrassing example was when he didn't even know that his own advisor had published a paper. This made his advisor so frustrated that he specifically asked Xu to print out and read all the papers published by the lab.

Years later, Xu developed Stork, which completely solved this problem. He input all the keywords and researcher names he could think of into the system, and then didn't need to worry about anything else. Stork automatically searches every day and sends him the results. Now he's always the first in the lab to know things like "David Boas published a new paper" or "someone used NIRS for hyperscanning again." He feels confident.

Xu made Stork freely available to his colleagues and classmates, and through word of mouth, more and more people started using it. Later, Stork gradually added a series of advanced features, such as translating papers into users' native languages, using AI to polish manuscripts, and using AI to write papers. These features make the entire research process — from tracking literature to reading papers to writing manuscripts — much more efficient for researchers.

The Origin of the Name "Stork"

When the Stork tool was being used within a small circle, Xu, then already a postdoc at Stanford, discussed with his colleague about what to name it. At that time, a postdoc named Joe suggested using "Stork" because in Western culture, storks bring babies to newlywed couples. Everyone thought this was a great name: researchers face massive amounts of literature every day, and finding useful papers for themselves is as challenging as finding their own baby. Stork, like the legendary bird, delivers the most relevant papers to researchers on time.

Overview of Stork's Advanced Features

To supercharge your research journey, we offer a suite of powerful advanced features that cover the entire workflow, from literature discovery to manuscript writing. In the reading phase, you can use Big Analysis to get a bird's-eye view of an entire field in minutes or navigate the Citation Network to uncover classic, must-read articles. Our ChatPaper and Reading Guide act as your intelligent assistants, helping you quickly digest complex papers. When you're ready to write, Sentence Sea provides a massive database of academic phrases to perfect your wording, while the Writing Assistant polishes your text into fluent, professional English. To eliminate the hassle of referencing, True Cite automatically finds, verifies, and completes your citations. For ultimate efficiency, our AI Paper tool can even generate a high-quality draft with real citations in just five minutes. All these tools are designed to clear away obstacles, allowing you to focus on what truly matters: your research and innovation. Below is the list of advanced features; you may click to learn the details.