Semantic Scholar AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is described as '(paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations' and is a academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Semantic Scholar, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, Android Tablet, iPad and SaaS apps. The best Semantic Scholar alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Semantic Scholar are ResearchGate, ResearchCollab, Connected Papers and Snowball.

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    30 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Online
     
    • Google Scholar is the most popular Web-based alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • Google Scholar is the most popular free alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • Google Scholar is Free and ProprietarySemantic Scholar is also Free and Proprietary
  2. ResearchGate icon
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    Enables users to upload and share scientific papers, connect with researchers globally, discover and follow research topics, access datasets, send direct messages, participate in discussions, track citation metrics, and explore academic job opportunities.

    35 ResearchGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
     
    • ResearchGate is the most popular iPhone alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • ResearchGate is Free and ProprietarySemantic Scholar is also Free and Proprietary
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    ResearchCollab is a web-based research collaboration platform designed to support individual researchers and teams throughout the research process.

    13 ResearchCollab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ResearchCollab is the most popular SaaS alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • ResearchCollab is the most popular commercial alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • ResearchCollab is Paid and ProprietarySemantic Scholar is Free and Proprietary
    • ResearchCollab is Privacy focusedSemantic Scholar is not according to our users
  4. Snowball icon
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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Snowball is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • Snowball is the most popular Open Source alternative to Semantic Scholar.

    • Snowball is Free and Open SourceSemantic Scholar is Free and Proprietary
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    BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents from more than 10,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Elicit icon
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    Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users efficiently discover, organize, and analyze academic papers and insights.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. OA.mg icon
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    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Search engine for tens of millions of preserved research papers. This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. RefSeek icon
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    RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. CiteSeerX icon
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    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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