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Semantic Scholar

AI-powered academic search engine that finds relevant papers, extracts key findings, and maps research connections across 200M+ publications.

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About Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar, built by the Allen Institute for AI, uses AI to help researchers navigate the exponentially growing body of scientific literature. With over 200 million papers indexed, the AI helps find relevant research, extract key findings, and understand how papers relate to each other. The Semantic Reader provides AI-generated paper summaries, key finding extraction, and inline citation context so you can quickly assess whether a paper is worth reading in full. TLDR summaries distill papers into one-sentence descriptions of their contributions. Research feeds and alerts use AI to surface newly published papers relevant to your interests. The citation graph visualizes how papers influence each other over time. Semantic Scholar is completely free and open-access, serving millions of researchers across every scientific discipline.

Key Features

  • AI paper summaries
  • TLDR generation
  • Citation graph
  • Research feeds
  • Semantic Reader
  • API access
  • 200M+ papers

Pros

  • Completely free
  • 200M+ papers indexed
  • Excellent AI summaries
  • Citation graph visualization

Cons

  • Academic papers only
  • Can miss niche publications
  • No full-text access for paywalled papers
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Completely free. Open access. API available.
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