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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
Free AI-assisted career aptitude quiz that matches personality and skills to suggested tech career paths.
AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.
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- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦literature review generator with per-sentence citations
- ✦AI reader for PDFs
- ✦AI writer with citations
- ✦academic claim verification
- ✦question answering over literature
- ✦daily, conference and best-paper digests
- ✦cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
- ✦AI-assisted career matching using validated psychological models
- ✦Instant results with no account required
- ✦Personality analysis alongside skill-based career matches
- ✦Ranked list of best-fit career paths
- ✦Job role overview summaries for each match
- ✦AI scoring for speaking and writing
- ✦Full PTE question-type practice
- ✦Weekly exam prediction files
- ✦Vocabulary books and shadowing tools
- ✦AI study plan and score analysis
- ✦Web and mobile app sync
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →People considering a career change into tech seeking data-driven direction
- →Students unsure which tech role fits their strengths
- →Job seekers wanting language to explain their strengths to employers or mentors
- →Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
- →Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
- →Studying likely exam questions
- →Tracking prep progress