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We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to LENS. The primary competitors include Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between LENS and Sparrho, SemanticScholar, Scinapse. Also you can look at other similar options here: Education and Reference Software.


Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly...

Discovery and recommendation engine for scientific content.

Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data...

Scinapse is a free, nonprofit, Academic search engine for papers, serviced by Pluto Network.

Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles.

An academic scholarly and patent free searcher

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The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

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