Semantic ScholarStrong
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Free AI-powered academic search engine and open API covering 200M+ scholarly papers
BREAF's verdict
Why BREAF recommends (or doesn't) Semantic Scholar, the full guide, and the sources it was checked against are Premium.
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Free tier
Full search/browse access to 200M+ papers plus free API access to Academic Graph, Recommendations, and bulk Datasets
Commercial use
Restricted — check the license
Platforms
web
First released
2015-01-01
API docs
Available
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