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.
Why this server?
Allows routing to the Semantic Scholar Graph API via HyperRoute, enabling agents to search academic papers and citations and execute queries server-side after connecting a key.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceMCP server for HyperRoute, a router that recommends and executes the best external tool for AI agent tasks, with server-side key management and outcome feedback.27MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
Why this server?
Provides AI-powered semantic search with citation networks, research field filtering, and direct access to open access PDFs.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceEnables 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.6419229181MITWhy this server?
Searches Semantic Scholar for academic papers.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceSearch 21 sources in one call — GitHub, npm, PyPI, arXiv, HN, X, Reddit, and more. No API keys to juggle, structured JSON back.21291MITWhy 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.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables 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.332MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar to enable searching and retrieving metadata of academic papers.
Why this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar's academic database as one of the sources for searching 500M+ academic publications to generate thesis-level papers with real citations.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceGenerate academic research papers from any topic using the OpenPaper API. Retrieves real citations from academic databases and produces citation-grounded papers in PDF, DOCX, and structured JSON formats.31MITWhy this server?
Provides integration for searching and analyzing academic literature through Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceWeb search (embedded SearXNG), content extraction, and library docs indexing with hybrid search. No API keys required.616Apache 2.0Why 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.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.113MIT