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Best for
Academic paper search with AI recommendations
Works on
Browser
Alternatives
Google Scholar, Connected Papers
Watch out
Covers academic papers only, not books or news
What It Does
Developed by the Allen Institute for AI, Semantic Scholar indexes over 200 million academic papers and uses AI to surface the most influential and relevant results. Its TLDR feature generates one-sentence summaries of papers. Citation graphs show how papers relate to each other, and its Research Feeds notify you when new papers match your interests.
Setup in 5 Minutes
—no account needed for searching.
- Create a free account to save papers, build a library, and set up
personalised research feeds.
- The Semantic Scholar API is also free for developers.
Try This
Search for a topic you are studying. Turn on TLDR summaries and
scan twenty papers in five minutes. Pick the three most cited, open the
citation graph for each, and identify the foundational paper that all
three cite. You have just done a mini literature review in under ten
minutes.
Follow Along
Follow Along — Trace an Idea's History:
and sort by citation count. Pick the most-cited follow-up paper and open its page.
- Now click References on the original paper and identify the oldest foundational work it builds on.
- Draw a simple timeline: foundational paper \(\) original paper \(\) top follow-up. You have traced the intellectual lineage of an idea in three steps.
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