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semanticscholar-mcp

Provides access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API, enabling search and retrieval of papers, authors, citations, and related academic data.

README

semanticscholar-mcp

Polski

Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API via MCP.

Tools
Environment variables
Wiring it up
Local run

Tools

Tool	Parameters	Description
`search_papers`	`query, fields, year, venue, fields_of_study, open_access_pdf, min_citation_count, publication_types, limit, offset`	Relevance-ranked paper search
`search_papers_bulk`	`query, fields, year, venue, sort, publication_types, fields_of_study, token`	Bulk paper search (up to 1000/call, with continuation token)
`match_paper_title`	`query, fields`	Find the paper whose title best matches a query
`autocomplete_paper`	`query`	Suggest paper title completions
`get_paper`	`paper_id, fields`	Details about a single paper
`get_papers_batch`	`paper_ids, fields`	Details for up to 500 papers at once
`get_paper_authors`	`paper_id, fields, limit, offset`	Authors of a given paper
`get_paper_citations`	`paper_id, fields, limit, offset`	Papers that cite a given paper
`get_paper_references`	`paper_id, fields, limit, offset`	Papers referenced by a given paper
`search_authors`	`query, fields, limit, offset`	Search for authors by name
`get_author`	`author_id, fields`	Details about a single author
`get_author_papers`	`author_id, fields, limit, offset`	Papers written by a given author
`get_authors_batch`	`author_ids, fields`	Details for up to 1000 authors at once
`search_snippets`	`query, paper_ids, fields_of_study, venue, publication_types, insertion_ids, min_citation_count`	Search text snippets from paper full texts, abstracts, and titles

All Semantic Scholar API calls are throttled to 1 request per second, cumulative across all tools, per the API's rate limit.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Description
`S2_API_KEY`	yes	Semantic Scholar API key, sent as the `x-api-key` header

Wiring it up

Only requirement: uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). Nothing else to install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add semanticscholar-mcp -e S2_API_KEY=<value> -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/dam2452/semanticscholar-mcp.git semanticscholar-mcp

Claude Desktop / other MCP client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semanticscholar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/dam2452/semanticscholar-mcp.git", "semanticscholar-mcp"],
      "env": { "S2_API_KEY": "<value>" }
    }
  }
}

After pushing a new version: uv cache clean and restart the client.

Local run

uv run --directory . semanticscholar-mcp

Tests (manual):

uv run --directory . --with pytest pytest test/

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