I’m using DDG or searx for all my casual searching, but haven’t been able to find a good search engine for scholarly articles specifically. Scrolling through pages upon pages of forum posts and educational stuff for teens/kids is unfortunately too time consuming when I’m specifically looking for research papers. I’d also need to be filtering by year of publication since I need to know what’s currently going on in my field, not what was going on 30 years ago.
TIA!
Have you gone through the Searx settings? Specifically the Engines, and Default Categories.
Engines has things like Google Scholar, Arxiv, Pubmed, etc.
Default Categories, Science will show results from those things first.