ahmadove t1_j2ikox2 wrote on January 1, 2023 at 4:36 PM

Reply to comment by PhilShackleford in Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. by akiptif

Sci-hub for a literature search? It's gold for someone without a good institutional access or for some rare to find articles, but you can only search DOIs, no?

novawind t1_j2irrit wrote on January 1, 2023 at 5:27 PM

Google scholar -> abstract -> DOI on sci-hub if promising

ahmadove t1_j2it3go wrote on January 1, 2023 at 5:37 PM

Well yes. But let's say you're interested in a very particular method being used in a paper. That method is often not mentioned in abstracts or to enough detail to discern by a keyword search. Searching by anything that probes abstracts will never get you a comprehensive result. You need an engine that searches also article body. That's my whole point I'm raising.

novawind t1_j2ivakl wrote on January 1, 2023 at 5:52 PM

Then inciteful.xyz or connectedpapers.com are pretty good. They look for citations, keywords and authors to graph relevant papers from a seed of selected papers.

In my experience though, Google is pretty good at giving the few most relevant results.