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Provides tools for searching papers, retrieving detailed paper and author information, and fetching citations and references from the Semantic Scholar academic database.
🎓 Semantic Scholar MCP Server
This project implements a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with the Semantic Scholar API. It provides tools for searching papers, retrieving paper and author details, and fetching citations and references.
✨ Features
- 🔍 Search for papers on Semantic Scholar
- 📄 Retrieve detailed information about specific papers
- 👤 Get author details
- 🔗 Fetch citations and references for a paper
📋 Prerequisites
- 🐍 Python 3.10+
- 📚
semanticscholar
Python package - 🔧
mcp
Python package (Model Context Protocol)
🚀 Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install semanticscholar Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
claude
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Paste the following into Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new server:
- Mac/Linux
Windsurf
CLine
- Clone this repository:Copy
- Install the required packages:Copy
🖥️ Usage
- Start the Semantic Scholar MCP server:Copy
- The server will start and listen for MCP requests.
- Use an MCP client to interact with the server and access the following tools:
- 🔍
search_semantic_scholar
: Search for papers using a query string - 📄
get_semantic_scholar_paper_details
: Get details of a specific paper - 👤
get_semantic_scholar_author_details
: Get details of a specific author - 🔗
get_semantic_scholar_citations_and_references
: Get citations and references for a paper
- 🔍
Usage with Claude Desktop
Add this configuration to your claude_desktop_config.json
:
(Mac OS)
(Windows version):
Using with Cline
📁 File Structure
- 📜
semantic_scholar_search.py
: Contains functions for interacting with the Semantic Scholar API - 🖥️
semantic_scholar_server.py
: Implements the MCP server and defines the available tools
🤝 Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
This server cannot be installed
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
Provides tools for accessing the Semantic Scholar API to search papers, retrieve paper and author details, and fetch citations and references through the Model Context Protocol.
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