Best Semantic Scholar MCP Servers

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) to help scholars discover and understand research papers.

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Why this server?
Provides access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API, allowing for searching and retrieving academic papers, author information, citation analysis, reference tracking, and text snippet search across scholarly publications.
Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Search Research & Data Documentation Access
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Enables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.
Last updated 9 months ago
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MIT
Why this server?
Allows searching and retrieving academic paper information from the Semantic Scholar API
Academic Paper Search MCP
Search Research & Data Remote
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Enables real-time search and retrieval of academic paper information from multiple sources, providing access to paper metadata, abstracts, and full-text content when available, with structured data responses for integration with AI models that support tool/function calling.
Last updated a year ago
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AGPL 3.0
Why this server?
Provides AI-powered semantic search with citation networks, research field filtering, and direct access to open access PDFs.
Paper Search MCP
Search Research & Data Open Data
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Enables searching and downloading academic papers from 14 platforms including arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Springer, and Sci-Hub with unified data format and intelligent rate limiting.
Last updated 18 days ago
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Why this server?
Provides integration for searching and analyzing academic literature through Semantic Scholar.
WET - Web Extended Toolkit
Research & Data Search Web Scraping
n24q02m
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Web search (embedded SearXNG), content extraction, and library docs indexing with hybrid search. No API keys required.
Last updated 11 hours ago
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MIT
Why this server?
Enables searching, downloading, and reading academic papers through Semantic Scholar's AI-powered research database, with optional API key support for enhanced features.
Academic MCP
Research & Data Search Documentation Access
LinXueyuanStdio
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Enables users to search, download, and read academic papers from multiple platforms including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef through a unified interface.
Last updated 2 months ago
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MIT
Why this server?
Serves as a fallback source to gather academic metadata and discussion details for processed URLs.
intercept-mcp
Browser Automation Web Scraping Search
bighippoman
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Give your AI the ability to read the web. Fetches URLs as clean markdown with 9 fallback strategies.
Last updated 16 days ago
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Why this server?
Provides comprehensive access to 200M+ academic papers through Semantic Scholar's API, including advanced paper search with filters, full paper details with citations and references, author profiles with h-index and publications, AI-powered paper recommendations, and bulk retrieval of up to 500 papers. Supports multiple identifier formats including Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, ArXiv, PubMed, ACL, and CorpusId.
Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Search Research & Data Documentation Access
smaniches
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Provides direct access to 200M+ academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling paper search with advanced filters, author discovery, citation analysis, and AI-powered paper recommendations through natural language.
Last updated a month ago
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Why this server?
Provides AI-driven search, download, and reading capabilities across over 200 million academic papers in Semantic Scholar's database.
Paper Search MCP Server
Research & Data Search Documentation Access
h-lu
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Enables searching, downloading, and reading academic papers from multiple platforms including arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, IACR, Google Scholar, RePEc/IDEAS, and Sci-Hub with PDF to Markdown conversion.
Last updated 3 months ago
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Why this server?
Supports source identification and management using Semantic Scholar identifiers for academic papers
literateMCP
Knowledge & Memory Research & Data Developer Tools
zongmin-yu
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Server for managing academic literature with structured note-taking and organization, designed for seamless interaction with Claude. Built with SQLite for simplicity and portability.
Last updated 13 days ago
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MIT