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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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BioSkepsis
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI life-sciences research assistant: semantic search over 40M+ papers with traceable citations, knowledge-graph retrieval and Zotero import.
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Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Basic: €0 (free monthly usage)
Plus: €8/mo (2.5x free usage)
Pro: €35/mo (8x free usage)
Team: €60/mo (3 seats)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦CSV to API conversion
- ✦Data parsing (CSV to JSON)
- ✦Filtering capabilities
- ✦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
- ✦Semantic search across 40M+ life-science papers
- ✦Auto-mode Research Agent with query refinement
- ✦Full-text reasoning, not just abstracts
- ✦Biology-native knowledge graph retrieval
- ✦Evidence-graded, citation-backed answers
- ✦Zotero library import and session sharing
Use cases
- →Sharing CSV data with a team via an API
- →Creating a public API from CSV data
- →Filtering and accessing specific data within a CSV file programmatically
- →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
- →Interpreting lab results against published evidence
- →Running literature reviews
- →Generating hypotheses and methodologies
- →Preparing proposals and lectures
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