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 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.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceProvides 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 updated4148MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
Why this server?
Allows searching papers via Semantic Scholar with metadata enrichment.
AlicenseBqualityCmaintenanceComprehensive MCP server for academic research workflows, enabling paper searching across multiple sources, manuscript processing with citation placeholders, search caching, and citation export.Last updated62MITWhy this server?
Resolves metadata and fetches open-access PDFs using Semantic Scholar's index.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceAn MCP server that resolves paper requests (DOI, arXiv, etc.), checks a local store, fetches open-access PDFs, and returns request IDs. It integrates with acatome-extract for ingestion and provides tools for submission, status, update, and file upload.Last updated4GPL 3.0Why this server?
Verifies academic citations against Semantic Scholar's database, matching metadata like title, authors, year, and venue.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceMCP server for verifying academic citations via Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and CrossRef.Last updated1MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar for paper search and metadata enrichment, with configurable API rate limits.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceAI-operable research workspace integrating Zotero, Obsidian, and NotebookLM. Search papers (arXiv/Semantic Scholar/PubMed/CrossRef), ingest into Zotero, sync per-paper notes to Obsidian, verify NotebookLM briefs. All three external tools optional.Last updated7627MITWhy this server?
Allows searching and fetching metadata of academic papers from Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAcademic paper search and retrieval MCP server integrating multiple scholarly platforms into a unified interface. Supports search, fetch, trend analysis, and literature review workflows.Last updated8302MITWhy this server?
Provides AI-powered citation analysis, abstracts, and impact metrics for academic papers.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceMCP server enabling AI agents to search and retrieve scientific papers, citations, and author profiles from Crossref, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar with no API keys required.Last updated53MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to retrieve academic paper metadata, citations, and references from Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables retrieval of academic paper metadata, PDFs, full text, citations, and references by title via Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and other sources.Last updated61MIT