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Semantic Scholar
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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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Consensus
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI academic search engine for scientific research; well-known, very high traffic.
5.7M visits/mo11K saves
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No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo
Premium: $8.99/mo
Teams: $9.99 per seat/mo
Enterprise: Custom
Core features
- ✦Research on AI governance
- ✦Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
- ✦Annual reports and updates
- ✦Information on AI regulation
- ✦Event summaries and announcements
- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-powered search for scientific research
- ✦Instant insights and topic synthesis
- ✦Consensus Meter to see scientific agreement
- ✦Pro Analysis for style adoption and content drafting
- ✦Paper-level insights extraction
- ✦Search filters for study design, sample size, etc.
- ✦Quality indicators for citations and journal quality
- ✦Study Snapshot for key information
Use cases
- →Understanding public attitudes towards AI
- →Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
- →Regulating downstream AI developers
- →Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Streamlining literature reviews for students and researchers
- →Quickly checking ingredients or chemicals for science organizations
- →Getting answers to patients’ questions for clinicians and doctors
- →Sourcing evidence-based insights for writers and journalists
- →Checking supplement safety and diet types for health & fitness experts
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