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Semantic Scholar

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Free AI-powered academic search engine and research graph from Semantic Scholar.

4.3
FreeResearch & Search

Pricing

Free

Company

Allen Institute for AI

Founded

2015

Free academic search and API access are available subject to rate limits and terms.

Who It's For
Academic researchersPhD studentsResearch librariansScience communicators
Details
CompanyAllen Institute for AI
Founded2015
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About Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free academic search engine and research graph for finding papers, authors, citations, related work, and scholarly context. It belongs in Research & Search.

Key Features

  • 200M+ academic papers indexed
  • AI-generated paper summaries (TLDR)
  • Citation influence analysis
  • Research feed recommendations
  • Free open API for developers

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Completely free with no limits

+ Excellent citation analysis

+ AI summaries save reading time

Cons

- Less comprehensive than Google Scholar

- TLDR summaries can oversimplify

- Recommendation algorithm needs tuning

Use Cases

Finding relevant research papersUnderstanding citation networksTracking research fieldsLiterature discovery

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