Semantic Scholar

Free AI-powered scholarly search and literature discovery engine

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PricingFree
Starting price$0
Free planYes
Best forResearchers and students who want a high-quality free academic search and discovery engine
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About Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free AI-powered research discovery service from Ai2 for finding papers, authors, citations and scholarly work. Search filters, generated TLDRs, influential-citation signals, libraries, research feeds and Ask This Paper help researchers triage and follow literature. Developers can also use its Academic Graph, recommendation APIs and open datasets. It is a discovery layer rather than a complete systematic-review platform, and full-text availability, summaries and citation relationships should be verified against original publications.

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Pros

  • Completely free
  • Large scholarly corpus
  • Useful citation, author and influential-paper signals

Cons

  • Not a full generative research workspace
  • Full-text availability depends on publishers and external sources