Google Scholar Alternatives

Google Scholar is described as 'Freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and' and is a popular academic research tool in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Google Scholar, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android Tablet and Android apps. The best Google Scholar alternative is Semantic Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Google Scholar are WorldCat, ResearchGate, Scinapse and Scopus.

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  1. OA.mg icon
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    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. LENS icon
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    The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. RefSeek icon
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    RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

    15 RefSeek alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. AcademiaOS icon
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    Find Academic Papers: Building on the SemanticScholar corpus and OpenAI embeddings, AcademiaOS finds and ranks relevant papers to your search queries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. CiteSeerX icon
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    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Publish or Perish (PoP) uses Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and Web of Science queries to obtain citation information, which is then analysed and converted to a variety of metrics (see Appendix).

    7 Publish or Perish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Biohunter icon
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    Biohunter is a single portal which provides literature search, data statistics, reading, sorting, storing, journal suggestion for publication, field expert identification and their contact details for collaboration. www.biohunter.in.

    25 Biohunter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Wispar icon
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    Wispar is a user-friendly and privacy-friendly Android/iOS app that seamlessly searches scientific journals and articles using the Crossref and OpenAlex API. Stay updated on your preferred journals by following them and receive new article abstracts in your main feed.

    4 Wispar alternatives

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • F-Droid
     
  10. Snowball icon
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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. BioSeek Mobile - Next Generation Search For Life Sciences. Fast. Efficient. Free. We process at one go multi-component searches that are normally quite time consuming. We strive to deliver the clearest representations of massive amounts of data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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