A living database of the published research on sharks, rays, and chimaeras. Shark Oracle reads the full text of each paper and records its methods, topics, species, places, and pressures, and keeps the evidence behind each entry, so you can see why a paper was classified as it was. Researchers check their own papers, and specialists tune the rules for their topic, so the database improves as the community uses it.

Use it

Check your own papers

Search for your name and see how the pipeline read each of your papers: methods, topics, species, places. Tell us where it is wrong.

Review a topic

For specialists: judge which papers genuinely belong to a topic, edit the rule that decides it, and watch the effect on the whole corpus at once.

Author Atlas

An interactive map of the people who publish on sharks, rays, and chimaeras, where they work, and who they work with.

Conference abstracts

Every abstract we hold from shark, ray, and chimaera meetings, searchable by title, author, or any word in the text.

Help find missing papers

Papers we still lack a full-text copy of, listed by publisher and journal, for anyone able to help us find them.

Read about it

Results index

Figures and live outputs from the project so far.

How the pipeline works

One-page infographic: from a paper to a row in the database (PDF).

The talk, with speaker notes

The project slide by slide, with the notes spoken alongside each one.

EEA 2026 workshop slides

The team, the tools, and the draft figures for each planned paper (PDF).

Every rule, every topic

The keywords, weights, and thresholds that assign papers to topics, in one table.

How accurate is it?

The validation report: the pipeline's accuracy against expert-checked papers, and how the rules were improved.