Scholar Data has seen a sharp rise in traffic from AI scrapers, and our rate limiting hasn't always kept pace. Here's what's happening and what we're doing about it.

Economist Alex Tabarrok highlights Scholar Data on Marginal Revolution, calling the S-index a way to reward the public good of sharing research datasets.

Scope a dataset search to just the publisher field by prefixing your query with publisher:.

DOIs and ORCID iDs are no longer automatically searched as an exact match, and search results now save their page number in the URL.

Search results are now cached, making repeated and popular searches noticeably faster.

S-index scores now recompute on a regular schedule, so datasets and profiles reflect the latest citations and usage automatically.

Researchers from WashU Medicine and the California Medical Innovations Institute won $400,000 for developing Scholar Data, a framework that recognizes and rewards high-quality biomedical data sharing across scientific disciplines.

Search results now show a ranking score and auto-detect identifiers like DOIs, researchers can claim their own datasets, the profile editor shows public/private visibility hints, and accessibility improved across the app.

Five researchers from Bridge2AI won the $400,000 first prize for Scholar Data, an automated platform that measures the impact of shared datasets and recognizes dataset creation as a scholarly contribution.

A new metrics dashboard breaks down datasets by publisher and license, dataset pages load faster, and a live status page now shows the health of Scholar Data's services.

Scholar Data placed first in NIH's S-Index Challenge, earning recognition and a share of the $1 million prize for building metrics that measure and reward high-quality data sharing across biomedical research.

NEI Director Michael F. Chiang previews the NIH S-Index Innovation Event, featuring a keynote from NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, finalist presentations, and a panel on implementing data sharing across academic institutions.

The National Eye Institute announced ten Phase 1 winners of the NIH S-Index Challenge, with seven teams advancing to Phase 2 to compete for the $1 million grand prize.

The official NIH challenge page for the $1 million S-index competition, inviting innovators to develop and validate a metric that measures and rewards high-quality biomedical data sharing.