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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).
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Semantic Scholar provides Academic Graph and Recommendations APIs. Search 214M+ papers, explore citations, discover authors, get recommendations. Configured credentials get a dedicated rate-limit pool.
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...
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). It provides 14 tools that AI agents can use through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Add the MCPBundles server URL to your MCP client configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.). The URL format is: https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/semantic-scholar. Authentication is handled automatically.
Semantic Scholar provides 14 tools that can be called by AI agents, along with a SKILL.md that gives your AI agent domain knowledge about when and how to use them.
Semantic Scholar uses open data APIs — no authentication required.
Connect Semantic Scholar to any MCP client in minutes
https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/semantic-scholarThe link prefills the Add custom connector dialog — you still review the values and click Add, then Connect to complete OAuth.
Semantic Scholar and paste the MCP URL into Remote MCP server URL.Custom connectors at claude.ai require a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise).
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