Semantic Scholar
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 20, 2025first mention
Sep 24, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I recommend something like semanticscholar to find actual relevant papers”
“except for SemanticScholar [1], which might have been lucky being one of the first.”
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“Semantic Scholar in particular is doing great work in this area”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
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All comments 5
“I recommend something like semanticscholar to find actual relevant papers”
“except for SemanticScholar [1], which might have been lucky being one of the first.”
“Semantic Scholar in particular is doing great work in this area”
“compared to https://www.alphaxiv.org/, https://www.semanticscholar.org/”
“http://semanticscholar.org/ come to mind”