semanticscholar.org
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
Measured from Semantic Scholar’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Semantic Scholar01 · 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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Semantic Scholar, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 02
Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers
Connected Papers is a visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find academic papers relevant to their field of work.
Very close - 03
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 04
online bibliographic database
Very close - 05
database of biomedical research
Close - 06
arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
Very close - 07
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close - 08
维普网
维普官方网站-一站式学术资源检索平台，汇聚国内外期刊、会议论文、学位论文、专利、报纸等多元化学术资源，覆盖广泛学术领域，满足您各类学术需求；采用先进的智能检索技术，支持多维度检索，同时提供高级检索、专业检索等模式，满足不同用户的精细化需求；提供文献引证追踪、科学指标分析等功能，助用户洞悉学术脉络，把握研究前沿；支持在线阅读、一键下载等多种便捷功能，让用户随时随地享受学术盛宴。个性化设置功能，让学术空间更加贴合个人需求，提升科研效率。
Close - 09
Backlinko: SEO, Content Marketing, & Link Building Strategies
It's time to get backlinks that make a difference. Backlinko is the place for next-level SEO training and link building strategies.
Close - 10
EconLit
Close - 11
Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
website
Close - 12
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close - 13
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Very close - 14
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Close - 15
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
Close - 16
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Close - 17
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
Very close - 18
Dimensions AI | The most advanced scientific research database
From idea to impact: Quickly navigate and connect grants, publications, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.
Very close - 19
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Very close - 20
Exa | Search API for AI Agents — Real-Time Web Data
Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Semantic Scholar’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Semantic Scholar uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 24 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Semantic Scholar’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Slab:400,500,600,700|Roboto:300,400,500,60…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-586.awsdns-09.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=XQD87lq7o-ceBjMa_bB7iZ-VbQAElBnOjnDXpRQOWf0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on semanticscholar.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Zendesk · not on semanticscholar.org 6/20
- Apple Business · not on semanticscholar.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on semanticscholar.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on semanticscholar.org 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on semanticscholar.org 4/20
- OpenAI · not on semanticscholar.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on semanticscholar.org 4/20
- Vue.js · not on semanticscholar.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on semanticscholar.org 3/20
- Zoom · not on semanticscholar.org 3/20
- Google Fonts 2/20
- Nuxt · not on semanticscholar.org 2/20