An open index of research

Status Papers is a research index published by status.lu. It exists to do one thing well: take significant scientific papers — the results that shaped their fields — and present them in a way a curious reader can actually use. Every entry pairs a clear, plain-language summary with the full bibliographic record and a direct link to the original, peer-reviewed source.

We are not a publisher of original research and we do not host papers. Think of this as a reading room and a card catalogue: a place to understand what a paper found and why it mattered, and then to go straight to the source of record to read it in full.

What each record contains

For every paper in the index you will find:

• its exact title, authors and year of publication;
• the journal or venue of record and the document type;
• a persistent identifier (a DOI wherever one exists);
• a concise summary of what the work did and found;
• a short list of key findings;
• ready-made citations (APA and BibTeX); and
• a prominent link — “Read the original paper” — to the source, plus an open-access copy where one is freely available.

The index today

The catalogue currently holds 121 papers across 11 fields, spanning 1905–2025. It grows deliberately: every record is checked against the publisher of record before it is added. You can read about how we choose and verify papers in our methodology.

A note on the summaries

The summaries and key findings are written for this index. They are careful editorial restatements, not reproductions of the original abstracts, and they are not a substitute for the paper itself. Where a summary and the source ever disagree, the source is authoritative — and we would like to know, so we can fix it.

Spotted an error or have a paper to suggest? Write to papers@status.lu.