Legit.Show measured PaperSeek's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure PaperSeek?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

AI & Agents

PaperSeek

Last updated 2026-06-28 · benchmark measured 2026-09-15 — deterministic & reproducible

LLM-based academic literature search agent with citation mapping and export.

66/100

7/7 frames

Top 83% of 14,510 measured · #16 of 20 in academic research assistant

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-15 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored PaperSeek 66/100 on 2026-09-15, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/paperseek-xyz/2026-09-15

Is PaperSeek production-ready?

Legit.Show scores PaperSeek 66 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on PaperSeek (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 96/100
Accessibility — 96/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 92/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 15/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 2722 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Researchers · Students · Academics · Scientists · Literature reviewers

Pricing

Free tier: 10 successful searches per day; higher quotas available upon request to paperseek-community@outlook.com

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from paperseek.xyz's own website on 2026-06-28.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-15.

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