Semantic Scholar Academic Graph, Recommendations, and Datasets APIs — search papers, explore citations, discover authors, get paper recommendations, and search text snippets across 214M+ academic papers. Most endpoints work without authentication; an optional API key provides dedicated rate limits (sent as x-api-key header, case-sensitive per the OpenAPI spec).
This MCP Bundle Server is compatible with any MCP client including Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other Model Context Protocol implementations.
Free account required. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and more. Other setup options ↓
Fetch Semantic Scholar details for multiple authors in a single request (up to 1000 IDs). Returns name, affiliations, paper count, citation count, and...
Fetch Semantic Scholar details for multiple papers in a single request (up to 500 IDs). Returns title, abstract, authors, citation count, venue, and m...
Fetch detailed Semantic Scholar author profile including name, affiliations, homepage, paper count, citation count, h-index, and external IDs (DBLP, e...
Get a Semantic Scholar author's papers with title, year, venue, citation count, and co-author information. Paginated for authors with many publication...
Get Semantic Scholar papers that cite a given paper (incoming citations). Returns citing papers with context snippets, citation intents, and whether t...
Fetch full Semantic Scholar paper metadata including abstract, authors, citation/reference counts, fields of study, and publication details. Accepts p...
Get the authors of a Semantic Scholar paper with their affiliations, publication count, citation count, and h-index.
Get Semantic Scholar papers referenced by a given paper (bibliography/outgoing references). Returns referenced papers with context snippets, citation ...
Find a single Semantic Scholar paper by exact or close title match. Returns the best-matching paper with a match score. Use this when you know the pap...
Get paper recommendations based on lists of positive (and optionally negative) example papers (Semantic Scholar Recommendations API). Provide papers y...
Search Semantic Scholar for authors by name. Returns authors with their affiliations, paper count, citation count, and h-index.
Search Semantic Scholar papers by relevance (Academic Graph API). Returns papers with title, abstract, TLDR summary, authors, venue, citation count, a...
Search for text snippets (~500 words) across academic papers that match a query. Returns ranked text excerpts from titles, abstracts, and body text wi...
Get paper recommendations similar to a single input paper (Semantic Scholar Recommendations API). Choose from 'recent' papers across all fields or 'al...
Connect this Semantic Scholar MCP Bundle Server to any MCP client in minutes
Compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and all Model Context Protocol clients
Model Context Protocol lets AI tools call external capabilities securely through a single URL. This bundle groups tools behind an MCP endpoint that many clients can use.
Skip the manual setup! Use the .mcpb file format for one-click installation. Check the Claude Desktop tab for setup instructions.
Select ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, or another tab for copy-paste config.