The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives
Elicit.com, Consensus, and Undermind.ai are among the new leading comprehensive cross-disciplinary "AI-powered academic search engines" today. Yet, these tools, alongside many others, have depended heavily on open scholarly metadata—especially Open Abstracts and full text—typically sourced from aggregators like Semantic Scholar Academic Graph/Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus, OpenAlex, and to a lesser extent Lens.org and CORE.
Authors
- Aaron Tay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-013X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Front Matter
- Published
- 2025-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.59350/zhnaz-8e261
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00