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ScholarAI

Unleash scientific research: search 40M+ peer-reviewed papers, explore scientific PDFs, and save to reference managers.

ScholarAI is a plugin that allows users to access open access scientific literature from peer-reviewed journals, with a database of over 40 million papers. By providing keywords, users can receive relevant papers' abstracts, and explore the full texts of papers using the provided pdf_url. ScholarAI also allows users to save papers to their Zotero reference manager. Always stay informed with ScholarAI.

Learn how to use ScholarAI effectively! Here are a few example prompts, tips, and the documentation of available commands.

Example prompts

  1. Prompt 1: "I want to find the most recent peer-reviewed articles about climate change."

  2. Prompt 2: "I found a PDF of a paper I'm interested in, can you help me read it?"

  3. Prompt 3: "I want to save this paper to my reference manager."

  4. Prompt 4: "I want to find the most cited articles about artificial intelligence from the last five years."

  5. Prompt 5: "I found a paper I'm interested in, can you help me read it and then save it to my reference manager?"

Features and commands

Feature/CommandDescription
searchAbstractsThis command allows you to search for relevant paper abstracts based on a set of keywords. You can also specify the sort order for results, whether to only return peer-reviewed articles, and the range of publication years.
getFullTextThis command retrieves the full text of a paper given its PDF URL. You can specify the chunk number to retrieve, which defaults to 1.
saveCitationThis command saves a citation to your reference manager. You need to provide the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the article, your reference manager User ID, and your reference manager API Key.

Configuration

User authenticationNo user authentication
API documentation

For AI

Namescholarai
DescriptionAccess open access scientific literature from peer-reviewed journals. The abstract endpoint finds relevant papers based on 2 to 6 keywords. After getting abstracts, ALWAYS prompt the user offering to go into more detail. Use the fulltext endpoint to retrieve the entire paper's text and access specific details using the provided pdf_url, if available. ALWAYS hyperlink the pdf_url from the responses if available. Offer to dive into the fulltext or search for additional papers. Always ask if the user wants save any paper to the user’s Zotero reference manager by using the save-citation endpoint and providing the doi and requesting the user’s zotero_user_id and zotero_api_key.

Updates

First added20 June 2023

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