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?
Provides AI-powered semantic search with citation networks, research field filtering, and direct access to open access PDFs.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityEnables 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 a month ago119202125MITWhy this server?
Provides integration for searching and analyzing academic literature through Semantic Scholar.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityWeb search (embedded SearXNG), content extraction, and library docs indexing with hybrid search. No API keys required.Last updated 2 hours ago54MITWhy 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.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityEnables 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 ago113MITWhy this server?
Offers broad academic search capabilities and paper data retrieval using the Semantic Scholar database.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityA local academic tool that enables searching across nine academic sources, downloading PDFs, and performing AI-powered analysis of research papers. It also supports generating citation networks and recommending papers based on local workspace code.Last updated 19 days ago766MITWhy this server?
Serves as a fallback source to gather academic metadata and discussion details for processed URLs.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityGive your AI the ability to read the web. Fetches URLs as clean markdown with 9 fallback strategies.Last updated 5 days ago22901MITWhy this server?
Allows searching and retrieving academic paper information from the Semantic Scholar API
AsecurityAlicense-qualityEnables 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 ago3108AGPL 3.0Why 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.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityEnables 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 ago39MITWhy this server?
Integrates with the Semantic Scholar academic API to retrieve scholarly citations and research evidence for creating structured knowledge cards.
-securityAlicense-qualityA self-improving knowledge agent that provides local retrieval, web research, and structured answer synthesis for Claude Code and VS Code Copilot via MCP. It enables AI tools to manage a project-specific knowledge lifecycle through automated research and indexing.Last updated 2 days ago5MITWhy this server?
Provides comprehensive access to Semantic Scholar API for academic paper data, author information, and citation networks. Features include paper search, citation analysis, author information retrieval, and paper recommendations.
-securityAlicense-qualitySemantic Scholar API, providing comprehensive access to academic paper data, author information, and citation networks.Last updated 23 days ago117MIT