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Monitor Semantic Scholar papers with Relaylit

200M+ academic papers with citation graphs and AI-extracted metadata across disciplines.

What Semantic Scholar covers

Semantic Scholar is Allen Institute for AI's cross-disciplinary corpus. It indexes more than 200 million papers with citation graphs, extracted key phrases, TLDR summaries, and influence scores — spanning computer science, neuroscience, biomedical sciences, and beyond.

Semantic Scholar's citation graph is ideal for finding influential papers and tracking research threads. Relaylit uses Semantic Scholar alongside discipline-specific sources (PubMed, arXiv) to catch cross-disciplinary papers that pure keyword search would miss.

How Relaylit uses Semantic Scholar

Relaylit turns your brief into a semantic query, runs it across Semantic Scholar plus five other sources, then ranks every hit by relevance to your context — not just citation count.

Semantic Scholar author alerts vs Relaylit

Semantic Scholar author alerts

Semantic Scholar's native alerts track specific authors or papers, not topics. No natural-language briefs, no AI ranking across a subject area.

Relaylit

Plain-language brief, not query syntax
Searches Semantic Scholar + 5 more databases in one pass
Deduplicates across sources
AI relevance score 0–100 per paper
Weekly, biweekly, monthly — or on-demand

Example briefs for Semantic Scholar

Copy one, tweak it in your profile, get your first digest in minutes.

"Influential recent work on mechanistic interpretability of transformers."

"Cross-disciplinary ML × neuroscience papers, high impact in 2026."

"Most-cited 2026 papers on LLM evaluation, RCT-style benchmarks only."

FAQ

What makes Semantic Scholar different from Google Scholar?

Semantic Scholar offers a programmable API, structured citation data, influence scores, and AI-generated TLDRs. Google Scholar does not expose a supported API — Relaylit can't query it reliably.

Does Relaylit use Semantic Scholar's TLDRs?

We generate our own summaries and relevance justifications so that every paper is assessed in the context of your specific brief, not in a generic summary.

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