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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.
Subscription bundling Editage's academic AI tools: writing assistant, journal finder, literature search, and illustration maker.
Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.
Enterprise AI knowledge platform that unifies complex regulated-industry data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence for R&D and agents.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦Daily AI news digest delivered by email
- ✦Practical application tips alongside each story
- ✦Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
- ✦AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
- ✦Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
- ✦Axion for turning data chaos into AI-ready intelligence
- ✦Neuralith for converting enterprise knowledge into an AI engine
- ✦RSpace for precision intelligence in complex R&D
- ✦Data unification across fragmented enterprise sources
- ✦Built for regulated, compliance-driven industries
- →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
- →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
- →Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
- →Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
- →Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
- →Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
- →Grounding enterprise AI agents in trusted internal knowledge
- →Accelerating R&D literature and data analysis
- →Unifying siloed regulated data for AI applications