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Inquisite
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AI-powered semantic search over 100M+ research papers that extracts structured attributes and maps relationships across results.
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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.
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No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Semantic search across 100M+ research papers
- ✦Structured attribute extraction (methods, findings, limitations)
- ✦Table, list, synthesis and graph visualizations
- ✦PDF upload and import from URL
- ✦Project organization and adjustable search scope
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Running literature reviews across many papers
- →Extracting comparable data points from studies
- →Mapping relationships between research papers
- →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
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