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Strengths
- Completely free, covering 200 million+ academic papers
- AI generated TLDR (one sentence summary)
- Powerful citation analysis and impact assessment
- Knowledge graph in the research field
- Provide free API
Best for
- Academic paper search and discovery
- Understand the impact and citations of a paper
- Discover relevant studies and authors
- Track trends in research areas
- Constructing a literature review
Paper search and discovery
Semantic Scholar’s AI can understand academic concepts and provide more accurate search results than Google Scholar.
Scenario
Search for a specific research topic
Prompt example
Enter your research topic in the search box: "attention mechanism transformer natural language processing" Search results include: - Paper title and author - TLDR (AI generated one sentence summary) - Citation count and impact score - Year of publication and journal/conference Filter options: - Filter by year (only view the last 3 years) - Sort by citation count - Filter by open access (see only those that are free to download)
Output / what to expect
Find a list of related papers,
TLDR helps quickly determine whether a paper is worth reading in depth.
Citation counts help identify important papers in the field.
Tips
Use the TLDR function to quickly filter and only truly relevant papers are worth the time to read the full text.
Scenario
Analyzing a paper’s citation network
Prompt example
Open a paper and view: 1. "Cited By" - Which papers cited this article - Understand the impact of this paper 2. "References" - What work is cited in this paper? - Understand the research background 3. "Recommended Papers" -Related papers recommended by AI - Discover important work that may have been missed
Output / what to expect
Through the citation network,
You can quickly understand the context of a research field,
Find the most important foundational papers and recent advances.
Tips
Starting from highly cited review papers (Survey), you can quickly understand the full picture of a field.