Semantic Scholar

Screenshot of Semantic Scholar
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-15
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Allen Institute for AI
Location of system headquarters:
Seattle, US
Year of launch:
2015
Type:
Search engine
Description of search system (by system owner)

Semantic Scholar covers all STM and SSH disciplines including biology, medicine, computer science, geography, business, history, and economics. Nearly 200 million papers are sourced from 550+ partners such as PubMed, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Wiley, ACM, IEEE, arXiv, Microsoft Academic, and Unpaywall.

Total coverage:
203.59M
Year-over-year growth:
N/A
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1931–2021
Record types:
9
Open Access records:
N/A

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:
limited 
Backward citation searching:
sufficient 
Forward citation searching:
sufficient 
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
4

Query

Latency with short query:
2.25 seconds
Latency with long query:
0.75 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
0
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
10 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
10 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):

Operators

Search operators:
0
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:
0
Results filters:
5
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
CiteSpace; VOSviewer
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
80.43%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
72.69%

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:
1000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
1
Export formats:
2
API:
upon request 
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
1
Pinned databases 0/6
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JKU LinzUniversität Innsbruck
Funded by
FWF