Metis · Librarian — Search Semantic Scholar
search_semantic_scholarSearch Semantic Scholar's citation graph to discover papers on a topic and add them to your news briefs.
Instructions
Search Semantic Scholar for papers on a topic (citation-graph discovery).
Complements PubMed (scan_pubmed_alerts) and OpenAlex (scan_openalex) with
Semantic Scholar's 200M+ paper graph and citation counts. Free public Graph
API, no key required. Matched papers are inserted into news_briefs with
source_type='article' (domain 'Semantic Scholar') so the Librarian and the
dashboard surface them like any other discovered paper.
Args:
query: Free-text topic to search (e.g. "HAT elimination surveillance").
Defaults to your configured PubMed/topic query if empty.
max_results: Maximum papers to retrieve (default 10, max 100).
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | No | ||
| max_results | No |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |