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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-assisted systematic literature review platform for research teams handling screening, deduplication, extraction, and PRISMA reporting.
AI research workspace that searches 550M+ sources, organizes findings and helps draft literature reviews with traceable citations.
AI platform that surfaces active EU calls for proposals with cited sources and drafts funding documents.
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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
- ✦Reference import, organization, and deduplication across large libraries
- ✦AI-powered relevance predictions to prioritize screening
- ✦Collaborative title/abstract and full-text screening workflows
- ✦Structured data extraction and PICO framework support
- ✦Risk of bias assessment tools
- ✦Auto-generated PRISMA flow diagrams and audit trails
- ✦Mobile app for screening on the go
- ✦Semantic and boolean search across 550M+ sources
- ✦AI-assisted topic exploration and gap-finding
- ✦Highlighting, summarizing and organizing findings on boards
- ✦Writing editor with automated bibliography generation
- ✦Chat with papers, findings or project boards
- ✦Zotero and Overleaf sync, in-app PDF annotation
- ✦Daily-updated database of 290+ active EU calls for proposals
- ✦Keyword or conversational search grounded in real funding data
- ✦Cited results linking back to source opportunities
- ✦AI summaries of complex call requirements
- ✦Automatic drafting of documents, emails and reports
- ✦GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany, ISO 27001 in progress
- →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
- →Running systematic literature reviews as a research team
- →Speeding up deduplication and abstract screening for large reference sets
- →Producing PRISMA-compliant documentation for publication
- →Coordinating divided screening workloads across reviewers
- →PhD students conducting literature reviews
- →Researchers organizing sources across a project
- →Students writing evidence-based essays with citations
- →Teams needing shared research workspaces with SSO
- →Finding relevant EU grant opportunities quickly
- →Summarising complex calls for proposals
- →Drafting grant application documents and correspondence
- →Avoiding costly third-party funding-research services