Semantic Scholar
AI-assisted search across more than 200 million papers.

About
Semantic Scholar, run by the Allen Institute for AI, indexes the scientific literature and layers machine reading on top: extracted citation contexts, influential-citation flags, and one-sentence paper summaries. Researchers use it to trace how a paper has been received and to build reading lists from its recommendations.
Features & use cases
- Search more than 200 million scientific papers
- One-sentence machine-generated paper summaries
- See which citations a paper considers influential
- Trace how a paper has been received over time
- Build reading lists from recommendation feeds
- Free API for programmatic literature access


