scholar-mcp
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| S2_API_KEY | No | Semantic Scholar API key (https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api#api-key-form) (1 req/s) | |
| CORE_API_KEY | No | CORE API key (https://core.ac.uk/services/api) | |
| OPENALEX_EMAIL | No | Email for Unpaywall + OpenAlex polite pool | |
| SCIHUB_ENABLED | No | Enable Sci-Hub as last-resort source | false |
| SCHOLAR_DOWNLOAD_DIR | No | PDF save directory | ./downloads |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
| logging | {} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| extensions | {
"io.modelcontextprotocol/ui": {}
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_papersA | Search for academic papers across multiple sources (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, OpenAlex). Results are ranked using LLM-based reranking for better relevance. |
| paper_infoB | Get information about a specific paper. Can include detail, citations, and/or references. |
| recommend_papersB | Find similar/related papers using Semantic Scholar's recommendation engine. |
| search_authorsC | Search for academic authors/researchers. |
| read_paperA | Download a paper's PDF and optionally extract its text content. |
| search_openreviewA | Search OpenReview for conference papers (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.). No API key required. Returns papers with PDFs and review links. |
| build_paper_graphB | Build a citation graph starting from seed papers. Recursively expands citations and references to map the research landscape. |
| knowledge_baseC | Manage saved papers in the knowledge base. |
| discover_fieldB | Map a research field: find surveys, foundational papers, and recent advances. |
| scholar_statusA | Check scholar-mcp server version, available sources, and KB collections. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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