20 years of Google Scholar

Fun fact about Google Scholar: it’s "free", but it’s just another soulless Google product - no clear strategy, no support, and a fragile proprietary dependency in what should be an open ecosystem. This creates inherent risks for the academic community. We need the equivalent of arXiv for Google Scholar

And that is semantic scholar, https://www.semanticscholar.org/

OpenAlex is a really good here too, including their API. They’re also the inheritors of the Microsoft Academic Graph, fully open source and open data:

https://openalex.org