Semantic Scholar
Free AI-assisted search engine for academic papers from the nonprofit Ai2
Visit Semantic Scholar (opens in a new tab)Semantic Scholar is a search engine for scholarly literature covering more than 200 million papers across all fields. It uses machine learning to rank results, summarise papers in one-line TLDRs, link citations and authors, and recommend related work, and its reader shows papers with in-line context for cited references.
It suits students, researchers and developers who want a free way to find and track papers. Developers can build on its public Academic Graph API and downloadable datasets, which many other research tools use. It finds and organises papers rather than writing literature reviews, so it pairs well with tools that summarise evidence.
Semantic Scholar is free to use and is run by Ai2, a nonprofit research institute. The API is also free: many endpoints work without a key at shared rate limits, and a free API key gives a dedicated rate limit.
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