Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-driven search and discovery tool, whose corpus serves as the main corpus for other tools.
Key features:
- Access: Free. You can use it even without signing up.
- Interface: Beginner friendly. Very simple, easy to use interface.
- Personalisation: If you create an account, you can organize papers into customized folders and bulk export citations. You can also get alerts and recommendations based on your interests.
- Interaction: On an article level, when the article is available with the PDF Semantic Reader, you can ask the AI Assistant questions about the article like questions around methodology, sample sizes etc.
Limitations:
- Beyond search: Does not provide any summary based on the result or does not extract any data.