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24 alternatives to Semantic Scholar

Vertical search across academic papers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Semantic Scholar launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Leap.it▲76

   A visual search engine for the web

   2014 · leap.it · its alternatives →

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   I made a website to semantically search ArXiv papers▲324

   As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for. I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4]. To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric. I would…

   2024 · papermatch.mitanshu.tech · its alternatives →

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   Studies.Show▲206

   140 character summaries of interesting research papers.

   2015 · studiesshow.app · its alternatives →

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   ExplainToMe▲182

   Automatic web article summarizer

   2016 · explaintome.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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   Liquid Text 2.0▲157

   A better way to understand text - across multiple documents

   2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →

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   Atavist▲116

   A web-based word processor as beautiful as Medium

   2015 · magazine.atavist.com · its alternatives →

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   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →

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   Researchers.io▲203

   Product Hunt for UX research

   2014 · researchers.io · its alternatives →

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   Paperpile▲66

   No-fuss reference management for the web

   2014 · paperpile.com · its alternatives →

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    Papers We Love▲90

    A repository of academic computer science papers

    2015 · paperswelove.org · its alternatives →

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    ScholarX▲68

    A Simple and effective scholarship matching platform

    2016 · yumetotoya.org · its alternatives →

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    Addr▲98

    A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Turret▲115

    A Responsive Front-end Framework for accessible websites

    2015 · bigfishtv.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Zillabyte▲87

    An API for analyzing the world's information

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Glimpse▲70

    The Diagnostics platform of the web

    2015 · xcor.com · its alternatives →

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    One Degree▲81

    The Human Search Engine

    2015 · onedegree.co · its alternatives →

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    Hawkee▲73

    A writing platform for web developers

    2014 · hawkee.com · its alternatives →

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    Contentacle▲114

    A simple new approach to content planning

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    dotmos▲92

    A new web search, discovery and curation platform

    2015 · dotmos.com · its alternatives →

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    Overviewr▲91

    Like idonethis but across teams and on a timeline

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Reframer▲81

    Qualitative research tool for discovering patterns/themes

    2015 · optimalworkshop.com · its alternatives →

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    Omnity▲3

    Next-generation semantic search engine

    2016 · omnity.io · its alternatives →

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    Findery▲63

    Social local discovery

    2014 · findery.com · its alternatives →

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    Semantic Scholar▲6

    A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature

    2023 · semanticscholar.org · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →