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Semantic Scholar

Who runs Semantic Scholar, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic search engine alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
OpenAlex

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Wikidata: search service for journal articles

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Semantic Scholar tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 13 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
4 tools

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Semantic Scholar

Fewer trackers than Semantic ScholarNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Semantic Scholar match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Semantic Scholar adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
38 ms

Built with

Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Slab:400,500,600,700|Roboto:300,400,500,60…
Analytics
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 2lKGiu2sntPdtM-aTlBdcOQ4kgRJLJrB-zEQm7w7dPps5A7VpZriiQ==
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)