AI & Machine Learning

Semantic Scholar

Allen Institute for AI · AI & Machine Learning

Semantic Scholar is an enormous free research index that behaves like a library rather than an assistant.

FreePopularity 82/100
8.2/ 10361 score
Ease of use7.6
Features8.4
Value9.4
Support7.4

Overview

Semantic Scholar is a free academic search engine from AI2 indexing over two hundred million papers.

200M+ paper indexAI-generated TLDRsCitation contextAuthor profilesOpen APIResearch feeds

Our verdict

Semantic Scholar is an enormous free research index that behaves like a library rather than an assistant.

Pros

  • Free and enormous
  • No marketing hype around it
  • Solid API for building on top

Cons

  • Feels like a library, not an assistant
  • Little guidance for beginners
  • You do the synthesis yourself