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# Semantic Scholar

> Launchelion is a daily leaderboard of newly-launched AI tools: real launch dates, one-vote-per-signed-in-account-per-day community upvotes, and — when a maker connects Stripe — verified monthly revenue instead of invented traction.

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Free academic search with citation context

Category: Research
Product URL: https://www.semanticscholar.org
Launch date: 2015-11-02

## Description

Semantic Scholar is a free academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI, built to show citation context and paper summaries rather than a bare abstract list. Live since November 2015.

Listing page: https://launchelion.com/tools/semantic-scholar