Perplexity's secret Citation Hunter mode: 11 prompts to research like an analyst

thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-10-26

Perplexity has a hidden workflow the author calls Citation Hunter: it finds real sources, checks claims, compares papers, and builds fully cited research briefs with zero hallucinated references. The thread shares 11 prompts spanning expert consensus mapping, institution tracking, counter-evidence search, stat verification, paper comparison, trend spotting, and cited executive summaries — compressing a grad-student-week literature review into minutes.

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