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Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.
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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
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦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
- ✦Conversational practice with AI tutors
- ✦Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
- ✦Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
- ✦Voice interaction with natural AI voices
- ✦Grammar courses and language certificates
- ✦130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
- →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
- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
- →Business teams training employees in new languages
- →Students supplementing classroom language education