semanticscholar.org
DR 90by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 60/100

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Categoryscience_and_education/science_and_education
Top 7,935
Global Rank
United States 15%
Top Market
-9%
Monthly Trend
48% Bounce
Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

7,924,076

9.3% vs last month

Bounce Rate

48.4%

Pages / Visit

2.6

Avg. Session

1m 48s

Domain Age

11.8 years

Traffic

#7,935Global Rank
#8,941Country Rank (840)
#30Category Rank · Science_and_Education
Traffic Trend
9.3%
Traffic Sources
Organic Search
65.8%
Direct
25.2%
Social
2.8%
Referral
5.5%
Paid
0.1%
Email
0.7%

SEO-dependent: 65.8% from organic search

Geographic Distribution
DomainShareBar
🇺🇸United StatesUS
15.4%
🇮🇩IndonesiaID
12.9%
🇮🇳IndiaIN
5.6%
🇨🇳ChinaCN
4.7%
🇩🇪GermanyDE
3.6%
Top 3 countries account for 34.0% of traffic

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords
Keyword
scholar1.4M$1.67$23.6K
semantic scholar123.2K$0.49$146.4K
citizen free press95.7K$3.86$9.8K
celeb jihad48.1K$0.00$4.6K
細木数子 島倉千代子36.5K$0.00$6.1K

Growth Readout

Global rank top 7.9K — established player in the space

How does semanticscholar.org actually grow?

This page shows the surface. A Growth Teardown reverse-engineers the full playbook — which keywords drive signups, where backlinks come from, which channels convert, and what you can replicate in your own product.

Competitive Landscape

citizenfreepress.com

citizenfreepress.com

🔗 2 keyword overlap

5.1 Billion pageviews in 2024 vs 4.2 Billion pageviews in 2023         I’ve been experimenting with very limited Ads (because we will never have anyth…

7.9M/mo-49%Aug 2016

Shares 2 keywords including "citizen free press"

loc.gov

loc.gov

🔗 2 keyword overlap

We’re excited to welcome you to the Library of Congress. Free timed-entry tickets are required to enter the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building.

5.1M/mo-3%Oct 1997

Shares 2 keywords including "citizen free press"

Report based on data from May 2026

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