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Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar helps researchers search, understand, save, and monitor scientific papers with AI-assisted tools.
Semantic Scholar is a free research platform for finding and evaluating scientific literature. It provides paper search, TLDR summaries, citation analysis, topic exploration, citation formatting, saved libraries, research feeds, alerts, and AI-generated answers for selected papers.
Researchers, students, clinicians, engineers, and librarians can use it to discover relevant work and track new publications. Full-text access depends on open availability or institutional subscriptions, and API use is subject to rate limits and access requirements.
Features
- Search scholarly papers with filters for authors, venues, fields, types, and dates
- Show AI-generated TLDR summaries for many papers
- Identify highly influential citations using citation context
- Save papers in folders and export citations in multiple formats
- Recommend papers through personalized Research Feeds
- Send alerts for new papers, citations, and author activity
- Ask questions about selected papers and receive supported answers
- Provide a public Academic Graph API for papers, authors, citations, and venues
Use cases
- Find relevant papers for a literature review
- Track new citations to a published paper
- Build a reading list and organize it into shared folders
- Monitor new research in a topic or field
- Explore influential papers and citation relationships
- Retrieve scholarly metadata programmatically through the API