SemanticScholar Paper Finder convinced me a carefully tuned specialist system can still beat a generalist system, even in AI. Every chatbot gives me buzzy tangentially related refs, while only SSPF actually picks and explains the most relevant. It’s enough to un-bitter-lesson me a bit tbh.
June 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
SemanticScholar Paper Finder convinced me a carefully tuned specialist system can still beat a generalist system, even in AI. Every chatbot gives me buzzy tangentially related refs, while only SSPF actually picks and explains the most relevant. It’s enough to un-bitter-lesson me a bit tbh.
Schwurbi: "Die Impfstoffe wurden gar nicht richtig erforscht."
Mela: "Die COVID-19 Impfstoffe sind die inzwischen mit am besten erforschten Impfstoffe."
Schwurbi: "Beweise das!!!"
Mela: *schickt Screenshot*
Mela: "Die COVID-19 Impfstoffe sind die inzwischen mit am besten erforschten Impfstoffe."
Schwurbi: "Beweise das!!!"
Mela: *schickt Screenshot*
September 3, 2023 at 3:56 AM
Schwurbi: "Die Impfstoffe wurden gar nicht richtig erforscht."
Mela: "Die COVID-19 Impfstoffe sind die inzwischen mit am besten erforschten Impfstoffe."
Schwurbi: "Beweise das!!!"
Mela: *schickt Screenshot*
Mela: "Die COVID-19 Impfstoffe sind die inzwischen mit am besten erforschten Impfstoffe."
Schwurbi: "Beweise das!!!"
Mela: *schickt Screenshot*
But one also wonders why @ai2.bsky.social 's #SemanticScholar is indexing rando's websites like this.
I mean, I can see why you might want to catch pdves that authors post of their *own* papers, but that's not what's going on here.
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I mean, I can see why you might want to catch pdves that authors post of their *own* papers, but that's not what's going on here.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:34 AM
But one also wonders why @ai2.bsky.social 's #SemanticScholar is indexing rando's websites like this.
I mean, I can see why you might want to catch pdves that authors post of their *own* papers, but that's not what's going on here.
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I mean, I can see why you might want to catch pdves that authors post of their *own* papers, but that's not what's going on here.
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Noticed something on about @ai2.bsky.social 's #SemanticScholar today -- for some reason the page for Bender & Koller 2020 has among its pdf links a link to the personal webpage of Gwern
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climbi...
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www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climbi...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Noticed something on about @ai2.bsky.social 's #SemanticScholar today -- for some reason the page for Bender & Koller 2020 has among its pdf links a link to the personal webpage of Gwern
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climbi...
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www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Climbi...
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Wonderful rstudio integration also. With betterbibtex Rmd/quarto is a joy. Zotero is open source. Some nice community plugins for Inciteful, semanticscholar, etc.
April 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wonderful rstudio integration also. With betterbibtex Rmd/quarto is a joy. Zotero is open source. Some nice community plugins for Inciteful, semanticscholar, etc.
https://guiasbib.upo.es/semanticscholar
t.co
January 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I haven't used the Semanticscholar pdf reader a lot, but knew it has a highlighter. But now they have AI based auto-highlights!! Seems really rad, I will start using it in my workflow and report back if it's useful as I start to use it!
January 11, 2024 at 3:43 PM
I haven't used the Semanticscholar pdf reader a lot, but knew it has a highlighter. But now they have AI based auto-highlights!! Seems really rad, I will start using it in my workflow and report back if it's useful as I start to use it!
Well thanks for clarifying at least. Pretty remarkable that he's written papers on covid given that his last paper listed on SemanticScholar is from 2016. How remarkably prescient he must be!
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Well thanks for clarifying at least. Pretty remarkable that he's written papers on covid given that his last paper listed on SemanticScholar is from 2016. How remarkably prescient he must be!
🔬 New open-source tool: LitMonitor
Automated literature monitoring with #SemanticScholar + #AI evaluation. Finds new papers weekly, evaluates them against your hypotheses, detects contradictions to your theory.
Includes an AI setup prompt – no coding needed.
git.unibw.de/mstefx/liter...
Automated literature monitoring with #SemanticScholar + #AI evaluation. Finds new papers weekly, evaluates them against your hypotheses, detects contradictions to your theory.
Includes an AI setup prompt – no coding needed.
git.unibw.de/mstefx/liter...
March 19, 2026 at 10:24 AM
🔬 New open-source tool: LitMonitor
Automated literature monitoring with #SemanticScholar + #AI evaluation. Finds new papers weekly, evaluates them against your hypotheses, detects contradictions to your theory.
Includes an AI setup prompt – no coding needed.
git.unibw.de/mstefx/liter...
Automated literature monitoring with #SemanticScholar + #AI evaluation. Finds new papers weekly, evaluates them against your hypotheses, detects contradictions to your theory.
Includes an AI setup prompt – no coding needed.
git.unibw.de/mstefx/liter...
I just cut off SemanticScholar from one of our sites since they were disobeying robots.txt.
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I just cut off SemanticScholar from one of our sites since they were disobeying robots.txt.
Wow! I had an excellent time talking about #ChatGPT, #SemanticScholar, #Perplexity, and #research of many types, as well as #informationliteracy. Who knew that a hour and a half could go by so quickly!? #aisky #edusky #ailiteracy #skybrary
December 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Wow! I had an excellent time talking about #ChatGPT, #SemanticScholar, #Perplexity, and #research of many types, as well as #informationliteracy. Who knew that a hour and a half could go by so quickly!? #aisky #edusky #ailiteracy #skybrary
Idk I think libgen is just LLAMA (confirmed) so far, no?
And as part of my recent project, I incidentally found out that ArXiv is SHOCKINGLY small — about ~3M preprints (so lots of trash, too) vs. 12M papers on JSTOR and 200M (!) papers on SemanticScholar.
And as part of my recent project, I incidentally found out that ArXiv is SHOCKINGLY small — about ~3M preprints (so lots of trash, too) vs. 12M papers on JSTOR and 200M (!) papers on SemanticScholar.
March 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Idk I think libgen is just LLAMA (confirmed) so far, no?
And as part of my recent project, I incidentally found out that ArXiv is SHOCKINGLY small — about ~3M preprints (so lots of trash, too) vs. 12M papers on JSTOR and 200M (!) papers on SemanticScholar.
And as part of my recent project, I incidentally found out that ArXiv is SHOCKINGLY small — about ~3M preprints (so lots of trash, too) vs. 12M papers on JSTOR and 200M (!) papers on SemanticScholar.
The tool attempts to extract a .bib file from an ACL-formatted PDF and then cross-references those items with SemanticScholar, OpenAlex, DBLP, etc. If you have keys for those services, it uses them and goes faster. The PDF-to-bib is only an best-effort, so there's definitely mistakes
March 27, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The tool attempts to extract a .bib file from an ACL-formatted PDF and then cross-references those items with SemanticScholar, OpenAlex, DBLP, etc. If you have keys for those services, it uses them and goes faster. The PDF-to-bib is only an best-effort, so there's definitely mistakes
Research Paper (Preprint): The Semantic Scholar Open #Data Platform www.infodocket.com/2025/04/29/r... #ai2 #opendata #semanticscholar #scholcomm #libraries
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Research Paper (Preprint): The Semantic Scholar Open #Data Platform www.infodocket.com/2025/04/29/r... #ai2 #opendata #semanticscholar #scholcomm #libraries
Donde encontrar investigaciones científicas
#tesis #tesista #investigacion #articulo #cienca #academia #metodologia #escritura #redaccion #googlescholar #scopus #webofscience #dimensions #lens #semanticscholar #microsoftacademic #openalex #paper #Posgrado #Doctorado #maestria #bibliografia
#tesis #tesista #investigacion #articulo #cienca #academia #metodologia #escritura #redaccion #googlescholar #scopus #webofscience #dimensions #lens #semanticscholar #microsoftacademic #openalex #paper #Posgrado #Doctorado #maestria #bibliografia
May 17, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Donde encontrar investigaciones científicas
#tesis #tesista #investigacion #articulo #cienca #academia #metodologia #escritura #redaccion #googlescholar #scopus #webofscience #dimensions #lens #semanticscholar #microsoftacademic #openalex #paper #Posgrado #Doctorado #maestria #bibliografia
#tesis #tesista #investigacion #articulo #cienca #academia #metodologia #escritura #redaccion #googlescholar #scopus #webofscience #dimensions #lens #semanticscholar #microsoftacademic #openalex #paper #Posgrado #Doctorado #maestria #bibliografia
20 years of #GoogleScholar, holy cow. It’s all nice and weird but what happens when they pull the plug of this very much neglected project? #google #tech
Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
November 19, 2024 at 3:13 PM
20 years of #GoogleScholar, holy cow. It’s all nice and weird but what happens when they pull the plug of this very much neglected project? #google #tech
Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
Thanks Dean! We’re self-hosting the data, so no api calls for us, we periodically update this data. We use a combination of OpenAlex and SemanticScholar
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Thanks Dean! We’re self-hosting the data, so no api calls for us, we periodically update this data. We use a combination of OpenAlex and SemanticScholar
In your first dash - "core papers and findings" sentences shown, the Tldr on semanticscholar.
February 17, 2026 at 4:13 AM
In your first dash - "core papers and findings" sentences shown, the Tldr on semanticscholar.
usuarios de características de filtrado, facetado y supervisión, basadas en metadatos, las más de las veces, curados. Los #TheLens, @dimensions-ai.bsky.social #SemanticScholar u #OpenAlex entre otros, de similar o mayor tamaño que #GS
January 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
usuarios de características de filtrado, facetado y supervisión, basadas en metadatos, las más de las veces, curados. Los #TheLens, @dimensions-ai.bsky.social #SemanticScholar u #OpenAlex entre otros, de similar o mayor tamaño que #GS
Next talks about recommenders based on seed citations @RsrchRabbit and @SemanticScholar recommendations. Again, usual issues for SR. Generally these tools were never meant for SR process. Except maybe @elicitorg new Systematic review process workflow.... (4)
February 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next talks about recommenders based on seed citations @RsrchRabbit and @SemanticScholar recommendations. Again, usual issues for SR. Generally these tools were never meant for SR process. Except maybe @elicitorg new Systematic review process workflow.... (4)
It seems to be thoughtfully designed (with a long article explaining the considerations), follows academic practices, and simply is genuinely helpful. https://allenai.org/blog/paper-finder It builds on #semanticscholar and verifies #genai output against an actual database of academic […]
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June 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It seems to be thoughtfully designed (with a long article explaining the considerations), follows academic practices, and simply is genuinely helpful. https://allenai.org/blog/paper-finder It builds on #semanticscholar and verifies #genai output against an actual database of academic […]
9/15 Everyone knows SemanticScholar, but don't sleep on its improvements and power.
Searches that get what you mean, not just what you type. The tool has been getting bigger and better since its inception, and it's one of the best Google Scholar alternatives on the market.
Searches that get what you mean, not just what you type. The tool has been getting bigger and better since its inception, and it's one of the best Google Scholar alternatives on the market.
December 9, 2024 at 5:22 PM
9/15 Everyone knows SemanticScholar, but don't sleep on its improvements and power.
Searches that get what you mean, not just what you type. The tool has been getting bigger and better since its inception, and it's one of the best Google Scholar alternatives on the market.
Searches that get what you mean, not just what you type. The tool has been getting bigger and better since its inception, and it's one of the best Google Scholar alternatives on the market.
Oh das ist auch ein super use Case! Ich mag auch den Copilot von semanticscholar (ist noch in der Beta), der konnte mir sehr verlässlich die spezifischen Inhalte raussuchen, die ich brauchte (Spezifika der Zielgruppe, Accuracy Scores, statistische Methoden)
February 17, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Oh das ist auch ein super use Case! Ich mag auch den Copilot von semanticscholar (ist noch in der Beta), der konnte mir sehr verlässlich die spezifischen Inhalte raussuchen, die ich brauchte (Spezifika der Zielgruppe, Accuracy Scores, statistische Methoden)