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Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.
Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
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- ✦Curated intelligence across four domains
- ✦Tiered source channels from news to research
- ✦Verified and attributed human insight
- ✦Daily updates on fast-changing topics
- ✦Mobile and web access
- ✦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
- ✦Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
- ✦Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
- ✦Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
- ✦Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
- ✦Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
- ✦Alerts for new related research
- ✦Research on AI governance
- ✦Analysis of AI risks and opportunities
- ✦Annual reports and updates
- ✦Information on AI regulation
- ✦Event summaries and announcements
- ✦AI academic writing assistant with grammar and phrasing suggestions
- ✦Journal recommender matched to a manuscript's abstract
- ✦Scientific illustration library with drag-and-drop editor
- ✦Literature discovery across 300M+ academic papers
- ✦Plagiarism checking and multilingual translation support
- ✦Research skill courses included with subscription
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →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
- →Building a systematic literature review efficiently
- →Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
- →Tracking new publications related to saved papers
- →Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
- →Understanding public attitudes towards AI
- →Analyzing the impact of AI on great powers
- →Regulating downstream AI developers
- →Managing risks from AI-enabled biological tools
- →Non-native English researchers polishing manuscripts before submission
- →Finding the right journal for a paper's subject area
- →Building scientific figures without a graphic designer
- →Keeping up with new literature in a research field