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semanticscholar.org

Category: Education

Scanned: Jun 7, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC · First seen: Jun 7, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
93 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of semanticscholar.org Captured Jun 7, 2026
https://semanticscholar.org
Screenshot of semanticscholar.org
11 years
Very Popular - #2,352 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Paris, France
nginx
Unknown
13.227.173.108
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc.
Registered September 5, 2014
Expires September 5, 2026
Name Servers ns-1437.awsdns-51.org
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting AWS CloudFront (GLOBAL)
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
87 files scanned
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www.semanticscholar.org/faq#claim-author-instructions 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq#add-papers-author-page 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq#institutional-access 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq#email-alerts 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq#remove-papers-author-page 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq/can-i-highlight-and-annotate-in-semantic-reader 21.0 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/faq/# 159.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader 44.9 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org/product/release-notes 38.2 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.semanticscholar.org.http-redirect 98 B No threats
www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-592W6WL 266 B No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/sign-in 96.9 KB No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=game%20theory%20&sort=relevance 92.6 KB No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=%22doris%20kearns%20goodwin%22&sort=relevance 92.7 KB No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/product#research-feeds 47.2 KB No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=conservation%20law&sort=relevance 92.6 KB No threats
www.semanticscholar.org/# 549.8 KB No threats
www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js 976 B No threats
cdn.finsweet.com/files/cmslibrary-v1.8.js 82.6 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
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External Links
5 Flagged
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Iframes
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99
Referenced Domains
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Flagged Resources
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web.hypothes.isFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/?utm_campaign%3DHypothesis&amp%3Butm_source%3Dhs_email&amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail&amp%3B_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-_9McGroIClllQnLe1ny3NbawklPLMQwy4icb_-hr3F_GVXZ-3CxDlmMdVwV5tCeNQ6gpByFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/help/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/start/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/start/?utm_campaign%3DHypothesis&amp%3Butm_source%3Dhs_email&amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail&amp%3B_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-_9McGroIClllQnLe1ny3NbawklPLMQwy4icb_-hr3F_GVXZ-3CxDlmMdVwV5tCeNQ6gpByFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/?utm_campaign%3DHypothesis&amp%3Butm_source%3Dhs_email&amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail&amp%3B_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-_9McGroIClllQnLe1ny3NbawklPLMQwy4icb_-hr3F_GVXZ-3CxDlmMdVwV5tCeNQ6gpByFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/help/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/start/Flagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://web.hypothes.is/start/?utm_campaign%3DHypothesis&amp%3Butm_source%3Dhs_email&amp%3Butm_medium%3Demail&amp%3B_hsenc%3Dp2ANqtz-_9McGroIClllQnLe1ny3NbawklPLMQwy4icb_-hr3F_GVXZ-3CxDlmMdVwV5tCeNQ6gpByFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://allenai.orgNot flagged
http://api.semanticscholar.org/corpus/Not flagged
http://hypothes.is/Not flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/Not flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/aboutNot flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/about/librariansNot flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/about/publishersNot flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/api-gallery/better-togetherNot flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/api-gallery/citespyNot flagged
http://semanticscholar.org/api-gallery/citrus-searchNot flagged
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web.hypothes.isFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
addons.mozilla.orgNot flagged
ajax.googleapis.comNot flagged
allenai.orgNot flagged
api.semanticscholar.orgNot flagged
arxiv.orgNot flagged
blog.allenai.orgNot flagged
c09bc9c04079.edge.sdk.awswaf.comNot flagged
cdn.embedly.comNot flagged
cdn.finsweet.comNot flagged
cdn.jsdelivr.netNot flagged
cdn.prod.website-files.comNot flagged
cdn.semanticscholar.orgNot flagged
challenges.cloudflare.comNot flagged
chrome.google.comNot flagged
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<iframe class%3D"embedly-embed" src%3D"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FbszE8BHFMjU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&display_name%3DYouTube&url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbszE8BHFMjU&image%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FbszE8BHFMjU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key%3D96f1f04c5f4143bcb0f2e68c87d65feb&type%3Dtext%2Fhtml&schema%3Dyoutube" scrolling%3D"no" allowfullscreen title%3D"Why AI2?">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id%3DGTM-592W6WL" height%3D"0" width%3D"0" style%3D"display:none%3Bvisibility:hidden">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/FUVxIIfXSUo?rel%3D0&amp%3Bcontrols%3D1&amp%3Bautoplay%3D0&amp%3Bmute%3D0&amp%3Bstart%3D0" frameBorder%3D"0" style%3D"position:absolute%3Bleft:0%3Btop:0%3Bwidth:100%%3Bheight:100%%3Bpointer-events:auto" allow%3D"autoplay%3B encrypted-media" allowfullscreen%3D"" title%3D"Semantic Scholar 101: Search">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/III9TER1yNA?rel%3D0&amp%3Bcontrols%3D1&amp%3Bautoplay%3D0&amp%3Bmute%3D0&amp%3Bstart%3D0" frameBorder%3D"0" style%3D"position:absolute%3Bleft:0%3Btop:0%3Bwidth:100%%3Bheight:100%%3Bpointer-events:auto" allow%3D"autoplay%3B encrypted-media" allowfullscreen%3D"" title%3D"Semantic Scholar 101: Paper Pages">Not flagged
<iframe src%3D"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WAefQlDN5mI?rel%3D0&amp%3Bcontrols%3D1&amp%3Bautoplay%3D0&amp%3Bmute%3D0&amp%3Bstart%3D0" frameBorder%3D"0" style%3D"position:absolute%3Bleft:0%3Btop:0%3Bwidth:100%%3Bheight:100%%3Bpointer-events:auto" allow%3D"autoplay%3B encrypted-media" allowfullscreen%3D"" title%3D"Semantic Scholar 101: Citations Overview">Not flagged
semanticscholar.org Overview

Description of semanticscholar.org

Semantic Scholar appears to be an academic research platform focused on helping users discover and explore scientific literature. The homepage presents it as an AI-powered research tool for searching papers across many fields of science, and the site structure includes paper search, author information, FAQs, product pages, and developer API resources.

Based on the domain, metadata, and linked resources, the service appears to be associated with the Allen Institute for AI ecosystem, with references to allenai.org and an API for scholarly content. Its classifications from multiple web-categorization providers place it in education and research-related categories, which is consistent with the visible content and the site's long-established presence online.

Safety Assessment for semanticscholar.org

The strongest safety signals in this scan are favorable. The domain was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources reported no listings at the time of this scan. The domain is also more than 11 years old and has a strong web presence, which generally reduces the likelihood of opportunistic abuse compared with newly registered domains.

A separate malware scan did mark several FAQ and product-related URLs as suspicious, but the detections appear to center on references to an external annotation service and were labeled with a generic heuristic rather than a specific malware family. In context, that kind of isolated heuristic result carries lower confidence when it is not corroborated by broader engine detections or blacklist listings.

Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan. The limited suspicious findings appear more consistent with a false positive or low-confidence heuristic trigger than with confirmed malicious activity.

Technical Description

The site is served over a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued through Amazon infrastructure, with certificate validity extending into 2027. It appears to be delivered through AWS CloudFront with an nginx web server, which is a common content-delivery and hosting setup for high-traffic web applications. The domain's Tranco ranking is strong, suggesting substantial legitimate usage and visibility.

WHOIS data indicates the domain was created in 2014 and is registered through Amazon Registrar, with multiple AWS nameservers configured. DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No major infrastructure-level security concerns are evident from the provided scan data.

HTTP Redirect Chain
301 https://semanticscholar.org/
200 https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Website Insights
#2,352
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Education
Rank History (30 days)
Apr 27 Jun 7
17 cookies detected
Essential14
Analytics2
Advertising1
Social0
17 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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