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Semantic Scholar

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 Semantic Scholar MCP server is compatible with any MCP client including Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other Model Context Protocol implementations.

Search & Discovery

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Search Papers

Search Semantic Scholar papers by relevance (Academic Graph API). Returns papers with title, abstract, TLDR summary,...

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Get Citations

Get Semantic Scholar papers that cite a given paper (incoming citations). Returns citing papers with context snippets,...

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Get Paper Authors

Get the authors of a Semantic Scholar paper with their affiliations, publication count, citation count, and h-index.

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Recommend Papers

Get paper recommendations based on lists of positive (and optionally negative) example papers (Semantic Scholar...

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Batch Authors

Fetch Semantic Scholar details for multiple authors in a single request (up to 1000 IDs). Returns name, affiliations,...

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Batch Papers

Fetch Semantic Scholar details for multiple papers in a single request (up to 500 IDs). Returns title, abstract,...

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Match Paper

Find a single Semantic Scholar paper by exact or close title match. Returns the best-matching paper with a match score....

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Search Snippets

Search for text snippets (~500 words) across academic papers that match a query. Returns ranked text excerpts from...

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Get Author

Fetch detailed Semantic Scholar author profile including name, affiliations, homepage, paper count, citation count,...

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Get References

Get Semantic Scholar papers referenced by a given paper (bibliography/outgoing references). Returns referenced papers...

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Similar Papers

Get paper recommendations similar to a single input paper (Semantic Scholar Recommendations API). Choose from 'recent'...

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Get Author Papers

Get a Semantic Scholar author's papers with title, year, venue, citation count, and co-author information. Paginated...

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Get Paper

Fetch full Semantic Scholar paper metadata including abstract, authors, citation/reference counts, fields of study, and...

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Search Authors

Search Semantic Scholar for authors by name. Returns authors with their affiliations, paper count, citation count, and...

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Semantic Scholar Academic Graph, Recommendations, and Datasets APIs — search papers, explore citations, discover...

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CategorySearch & Discovery

SetupNone, API Key

AddedDecember 27, 2025

UpdatedMarch 9, 2026

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