Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar allows searching of more than 200,000 papers. it keeps track of wanted citations in a Library and can set up a feed to retrieve similar citations. There are also beta features such as providing information about in-text citations within some PDFs.
Pros
- Free to use
- Well-organized interface that allows many ways to sort results
- Searches are semantic, meaning it is not necessary to specify all possible keywords.
Cons
- Does not search as expected when the word "and" is part of the search
- Long queries do not work well.
- No summary report of results, but does have TLDRs for individual results
- Citation export requires that the user first save citations to a Library and then export small batches that may not include abstracts. Zotero works well with capturing references from Semantic Scholar, but sometimes runs into limits generated from the server.
Semantic Scholar
