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Semantic search engine for academic papers

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What is Cito?

Cito searches about 148 million scholarly papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus using hybrid, semantic or keyword retrieval with SPECTER2 embeddings. It adds OpenAlex open-access links and offers an API without the public rate limit, aimed at researchers and developers exploring literature by meaning.

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Website
https://cito.fim.ai/
Listing updated
Nov 11, 2026

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What is Cito?

Cito searches about 148 million scholarly papers from the Semantic Scholar corpus using hybrid, semantic or keyword retrieval with SPECTER2 embeddings. It adds OpenAlex open-access links and offers an API without the public rate limit, aimed at researchers and developers exploring literature by meaning.

What are alternatives to Cito?

Research alternatives to Cito include ChatPDF, Scholarcy, ResearchGate, Consensus, AskYourPDF and Scite.

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