Link: Semantic Scholar
What type of AI: Research Assistant
User account: Immediate access is available on their homepage but you can also create a free account.
What it does: Allows access to millions of academic papers. Features a citation analytics tool that identifies highly influential authors and traces prior work in an area of research.
Where it pulls data from: Web indexing and partnerships with scientific journals, indexes, and content providers
How you can use it: Students can access scientific papers in their research area, as well as see suggestions for related papers. When they have an article open, they can use the Ask This Paper feature to learn the goal of the paper, key results, and more. With their beta version, students can use their TLDR tool to summarize an article they've found.
Start by entering keywords from a research question. Results appear in order of relevance to your keywords.
Students can browse the articles, use the filters to change how the results are shown, or click the Related Papers tab for similar papers.
Each paper includes an analysis of the citations and identifies "highly influential citations"
Citations within a work can be viewed based on type. Works that cite this work can also be viewed and explored.