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 tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenancePay-per-call AI agent APIs on Base via x402. Multiple tools across patents, law, AI, geo, weather, crypto, and more. Always growing.2019MITWhy 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.

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AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceMCP 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.22206 PyPIMITWhy this server?
Provides related paper recommendations based on library seeds, similar to Connected Papers, via the find_related_papers tool.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceMCP server that lets AI assistants search, create, organize, and cite from a Zotero library.394MITWhy 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.2136 npm1MITWhy this server?
Integrates with the Semantic Scholar API for scholarly metadata, with an optional API key to raise rate limits for citation and reference lookups.
Why 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.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables searching scholarly literature across CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex, and retrieving open-access PDFs via Unpaywall.9MITWhy this server?
Core integration for searching papers, retrieving citations, references, author profiles, and citation graph traversal via Semantic Scholar API.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceA FastMCP server for the scholarly citation landscape that enables LLMs to search, cross-reference, and retrieve prior art across papers, patents, books, and standards via multiple APIs.2159 PyPI3MITWhy this server?
Provides access to Semantic Scholar's academic graph, recommendations, and datasets APIs, enabling paper search, metadata lookup, author information, citation and reference exploration, paper recommendations, and dataset release discovery.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI agents to access Semantic Scholar's Academic Graph search, paper recommendations, and dataset release APIs through deterministic MCP tools, supporting literature discovery and dataset retrieval.10BSD Zero ClauseWhy this server?
Searches academic papers from Semantic Scholar as part of multi-source scholarly search, providing access to scholarly literature with citation data and metadata.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceYour AI's research copilot. Searches 6 academic databases, downloads real PDFs, reads them cover to cover, extracts evidence, renders figures, syncs to Zotero.1614MIT