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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 research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
AI research workspace combining literature search, protocol drafting, chemistry tools, and notebook computation for scientists.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦Literature search across PubMed, arXiv, and Google Scholar
- ✦AI-assisted protocol drafting and hazard/assumption auditing
- ✦Built-in chemistry tools for molecular weight, hazards, and reactions
- ✦Jupyter notebook execution with RDKit and PySCF support
- ✦Persistent workspace storing protocols, files, and audit trails
- ✦Access to multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek) in one subscription
- ✦Quantum chemistry simulation via PySCF and ASE
- →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
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Researchers turning a question into a literature review and protocol
- →Chemists checking compound properties and reaction feasibility
- →Lab teams auditing experimental protocols for safety and gaps
- →Scientists running computational chemistry without separate tools