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AI · March 4, 2025

Scholium, Your Own Research Assistant

I built an AI-powered research agent designed to efficiently discover, summarize, and cite relevant academic papers based on user queries. As a university student, I've written my share of essays and have also served as a copy editor for our student newspaper. During fact-checking, I noticed that Google often prioritizes unreliable and unscholarly resources—such as Medium articles, Reddit posts, and LinkedIn content—in its top results over scholarly ones. For instance, searching "Transformers" yields six blogs and articles before finally listing the Vaswani (2017) paper. This makes gathering…

Scholium, Your Own Research Assistant launched on March 4, 2025 with 23 votes, #789 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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In plain words

Scholium is an AI-powered research assistant that helps users discover, summarize, and cite relevant academic papers based on their queries. Designed for students and researchers, it addresses the problem of search engines prioritizing blogs and social media over scholarly sources by using vector databases and retrieval models to prioritize academic papers. The tool streamlines the process of gathering credible sources and verifying facts for research and writing projects.

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From the sources

Your AI research assistant. Contribute to QDScholium/ScholiumAI development by creating an account on GitHub.

Researchers spend days finding relevant papers because Google returns non-credible and unscholarly sources without citations. Scholium is an AI agent that finds and cites the relevant scholarly papers in seconds. Don't search for papers by hand! Find them with just afrom github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built an AI-powered research agent designed to efficiently discover, summarize, and cite relevant academic papers based on user queries. As a university student, I've written my share of essays and have also served as a copy editor for our student newspaper. During fact-checking, I noticed that Google often…

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