About Semantic Scholar MCP
Semantic Scholar MCP is an MCP server published by hy20191108 in the Developer Tools category: model Context Protocol server for Semantic Scholar.
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Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Access millions of academic papers from Semantic Scholar using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP-compatible editors.
Features
✅ 33 comprehensive tools - Search papers, analyze citations, manage research
✅ Smart AI prompts - Literature reviews and citation analysis
✅ Project & memory management - Organize your research workflow
✅ Fast & reliable - Built-in caching and error recovery
✅ Free to use - No API key required (optional for higher limits)
Installation
One command (recommended):
claude mcp add semantic-scholar -- uvx semantic-scholar-mcp
Manual setup (add to MCP settings):
{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["semantic-scholar-mcp"]
}
}
}
With API key (for higher rate limits):
{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["semantic-scholar-mcp"],
"env": {
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
}
}
}
}
Get your free API key at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
Quick Start
Ask in natural language:
"Find recent papers on transformer architectures"
"Show me details for paper DOI 10.1038/nature14539"
"Get recommendations based on the BERT paper"
"Create a literature review on quantum computing"
"Save this review to memory as 'quantum_survey'"
What You Can Do
📄 Paper Research
- Search papers with advanced filters (year, citations, fields)
- Get full details: abstracts, authors, citations, references
- Convert PDFs to Markdown for analysis
- Find related papers with AI recommendations
👤 Author Analysis
- Search researchers by name or field
- Get author profiles with h-index and metrics
- List all publications by author
- Batch operations for multiple authors
🧠 Smart Features
- AI-powered paper recommendations
- Semantic search with SPECTER embeddings
- Citation network analysis
- Research trend identification
💾 Research Organization
- Create multiple research projects
- Save literature reviews and notes
- Manage research memories
- Switch between project contexts
📊 Datasets
- Access Semantic Scholar datasets
- Download paper/author data
- Get incremental updates
License
MIT License - see LICENSE for details.
⚠️ The
get_paper_fulltexttool uses PyMuPDF4LLM (AGPL licensed). Commercial usage may require a commercial PyMuPDF license.
Acknowledgments
- Semantic Scholar for the academic graph API
- Anthropic for the MCP specification
- The academic community for making research accessible
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