ResearchQA (Open Paper) - Section Coverage: leaderboard
ResearchQA (2026) asks citation-grounded questions about single open-access scientific papers, run here through the Open Paper chat-with-paper harness on a 100-question sample. Section coverage is the percent of the required paper sections that the cited evidence covers; higher is better.
Metric: Section coverage (%; fractional satisfaction of the paper sections a question requires, any listed alternative passage counting for its section, citation-grounded answers from the Open Paper chat-with-paper harness to a 100-row evenly spaced sample of 6,211 single-paper questions over 494 open-access papers, citations checked by a normalizing substring matcher against the extracted paper text; higher is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 95.5 | #94 |
| 2 | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) | 91.3 | #144 |
| 3 | GPT-5.4 | 90.2 | #123 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 87.6 | #79 |
| 5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | 84.3 | #568 |
| 6 | GLM-4.7 | 77.6 | #366 |
| 7 | GPT-4.1 | 75.5 | #495 |
| 8 | GPT-OSS-120B | 63.6 | #700 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=researchqa-open-paper-section-coverage · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.