What is AMiner?
AMiner – powered by Zhipu AI’s GLM full-capacity model – is your all-in-one AI research assistant designed to supercharge academic work. With access to over 300 million scholarly papers and 60 million researcher profiles, it goes beyond simple search to help you dive deep into literature, understand complex papers, and generate well-sourced academic content like literature reviews and research proposals.
Whether you're a grad student drafting a thesis or a professor tracking breakthroughs in your field, AMiner combines cutting-edge AI reading, smart academic search, and real citation support to save time and boost research quality. It’s like having a knowledgeable research partner who never sleeps—ready to summarize, analyze, and even help you write with academic rigor.
What are the features of AMiner?
- Academic Search: Find papers, authors, conferences, and institutions across 300M+ global publications with precision.
- AI Reading & Summarization: Instantly grasp key insights from dense research papers using GLM-powered comprehension.
- Deep Research Reports: Generate literature reviews, grant proposals, or survey reports with real citations and references.
- Scholar Tracking: Follow top researchers (like those in the AI2000 list), institutions, or keywords to stay updated.
- Custom Content Generation: Create PPTs, reports, or podcasts using personalized AI instructions.
- WeChat Integration: Access AMiner directly via WeChat for on-the-go academic searches.
- Provenance Tree (“Sourcing Tree”): Trace claims back to original sources for trustworthy, verifiable outputs.
- Academic API & Dataset Access: Build custom tools or analyze trends using AMiner’s structured scholarly data.
What are the use cases of AMiner?
- A PhD student uses AMiner to compile a fully cited literature review on large language models in under an hour.
- A researcher tracks daily arXiv updates in robotics after ICRA 2024 to spot emerging trends.
- A professor identifies leading experts at Tsinghua University working on LLMs for potential collaboration.
- An undergrad generates a clear summary of a complex math breakthrough—like the 2025 solution to the 3D Kakeya conjecture by Wang Hong and Joshua Zahl.
- A lab team creates a custom presentation on neural rendering using AI-generated slides with accurate references.
- Scholars monitor real-time activity from institutions like MIT or Peking University through the Academic Space feed.
How to use AMiner?
- Log in to your AMiner account (or sign up) to access personalized features like saved searches and collections.
- Use Smart Search instead of basic keywords—ask full questions like “Which Tsinghua professors research large language models?”
- Click “AI Reading” on any paper to get a concise, plain-language summary with key contributions highlighted.
- Enable topic subscriptions to receive daily email or app alerts on new papers in your field.
- When generating reports, select “Include Real Citations” to ensure academic integrity and traceable sources.
- Connect via WeChat for quick mobile access—ideal for checking references during conferences or meetings.
