The tool seems designed to compete with Thomson ISI’s popular Web of Science search engine, which has been around since 1997 and has thousands of institutional subscribers.

Until Elsevier launched its search engine, Scopus, in 2004, Thomson Scientific's Web of Science had a monopoly on citation tracking.

The Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science databases are introducing conversational AI search.

Scientific search engines are the Napster of academic papers—and they're only getting more powerful.