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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 tool that summarizes scientific papers into abstract, methods, results, and conclusion sections, with figure and citation support.
AI-scored practice platform for PTE Academic and PTE Core exam prep, with question banks, predictions and study tools.
Free AI-assisted career aptitude quiz that matches personality and skills to suggested tech career paths.
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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
- ✦Structured section-by-section paper summarization
- ✦Bulk and multi-paper summarization and comparison
- ✦Chat with figures for data interpretation
- ✦Folder and tag-based library organization
- ✦Semantic search across indexed documents on Pro
- ✦ChatGPT connector integration
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →Students digesting dense research papers quickly
- →Researchers doing literature reviews across many papers
- →Academics organizing a personal paper library
- →Preparing for PTE Academic/Core exams
- →Practicing speaking and writing with AI feedback
- →Studying likely exam questions
- →Tracking prep progress
- →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