Semantic Scholar
by Allen Institute for AI
📖 What is Semantic Scholar?
Semantic Scholar is a free, non-profit AI research tool developed by the Allen Institute for AI that indexes over 200 million academic papers, extracting key citations, topics, and one-sentence TLDR summaries.
💡 Why It Matters
Semantic Scholar serves as the foundational open database powering many commercial academic AI tools.
🎯 Workplace Use Cases
- Searching across millions of computer science, biomedical, and physics research papers
- Reading one-sentence AI TLDR summaries of complex academic studies
- Exploring citation graphs to trace research lineage
🚀 How to Use It
Visit semanticscholar.org, enter your research query or paper title, and read AI TLDR summaries.
✨ Key Features
- Free access to 200M+ indexed research papers
- AI-generated TLDR paper summaries
- Citation velocity and influential citation tracking
💳 Pricing & Plans
Free Tier: Free non-profit service funded by the Allen Institute for AI.
✓ Pricing verified as of 2026-03-01