What COMPASS is, why we built it, and what its first atlases show about the shape of research — and the gaps in it.
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Our desertification evidence atlas reads 28,111 peer-reviewed studies on desertification, land degradation and drought end to end — and finds research effort almost entirely uncorrelated with where degradation is worst, while human dimensions and rangelands remain the least-covered parts of the record.
Research
Our first family-scale evidence atlas reads the entire dogbane & milkweed family end to end — and finds drug-discovery research concentrated on a handful of species, while 64.5% of species have no indexed research at all.
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The Basics
A gap in COMPASS is not "something no one has done" — it is a specific, countable absence. Here is how to find one.
The Basics
Point COMPASS at a family, a region, or a theme — it harvests the literature, AI-tags every study, geolocates the fieldwork, and hands you an interactive evidence atlas.
Vision
The world's research is searchable by keyword, but not by what it covers or leaves uncovered. We built COMPASS to make the shape of knowledge — and its blank spaces — measurable.
The Basics
COMPASS reads an entire field of research, tags every study across dozens of dimensions, and maps what the science covers — and the vast gaps it has left dark.
