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.33MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
Why this server?
Allows searching over 200 million academic papers with AI-powered recommendations and citation graphs.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceProvides access to 61 public digital libraries through a single unified interface, enabling users to search and retrieve information from academic papers, books, legal records, and more using natural language.41130 npm2MITWhy this server?
Searches Semantic Scholar for academic papers.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceSearch 21 sources in one call — GitHub, npm, PyPI, arXiv, HN, X, Reddit, and more. No API keys to juggle, structured JSON back.2110 npm1MITWhy 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.341MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching Semantic Scholar's scholarly literature index and retrieving paper metadata by Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, arXiv ID, PubMed ID, or Corpus ID.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables searching scholarly literature across CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex, and retrieving open-access PDFs via Unpaywall.9MITWhy 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.61,953 PyPI18Apache 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.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.113MIT