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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 research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.
Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
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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
- ✦Search across millions of peer-reviewed papers
- ✦Agentic AI chat that consults research and uploaded PDFs
- ✦Auto-citation in over 2,600 citation styles
- ✦One-click Zotero/Mendeley library import with metadata and PDFs
- ✦ScholarAI GPT available in the ChatGPT GPT Store
- ✦Developer API for integrating research search
- ✦Text network / knowledge graph visualization
- ✦Topic modeling and content-gap detection
- ✦AI insight and question generation
- ✦GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
- ✦Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
- ✦Obsidian plugin and browser extension
- →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
- →Finding and citing academic sources for a paper
- →Chatting with AI about uploaded research PDFs
- →Importing an existing reference library for a new project
- →Building custom apps on top of academic search via API
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research