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.

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Why 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.
Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Search Research & Data Documentation Access
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Enables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.
Last updated 7 months ago
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MIT License
Why 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.
Academic MCP
Research & Data Search Documentation Access
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Enables 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 10 days ago
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MIT License
Why this server?
Allows searching and retrieving academic paper information from the Semantic Scholar API
Academic Paper Search MCP
Search Research & Data Remote
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Enables 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 ago
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Why this server?
Provides AI-powered semantic search with citation networks, research field filtering, and direct access to open access PDFs.
Paper Search MCP
Search Research & Data Open Data
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Enables 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 20 days ago
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MIT License
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.
Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Search Research & Data Documentation Access
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Provides 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 updated 10 days ago
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Why this server?
Provides AI-driven search, download, and reading capabilities across over 200 million academic papers in Semantic Scholar's database.
Paper Search MCP Server
Research & Data Search Documentation Access
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Enables searching, downloading, and reading academic papers from multiple platforms including arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, IACR, Google Scholar, RePEc/IDEAS, and Sci-Hub with PDF to Markdown conversion.
Last updated a month ago
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Why this server?
Enables verification of academic citations against the Semantic Scholar database, featuring author name match tolerance and support for API keys to handle higher rate limits.
harcx-mcp
Research & Data Developer Tools Documentation Access
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An MCP server that enables AI assistants to verify BibTeX citations and URLs against academic databases like Semantic Scholar and DBLP. It allows users to ensure bibliography accuracy and link accessibility directly within their research workflows.
Last updated 2 days ago
MIT License
Why 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.
Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Research & Data Search Remote
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Semantic Scholar API, providing comprehensive access to academic paper data, author information, and citation networks.
Last updated 12 days ago
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MIT License
Why this server?
Provides access to Semantic Scholar's academic database with citation analysis, paper search, citation network exploration, and bibliographic data retrieval
Research MCP
Research & Data Search Text Summarization
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Enables LLMs to search, analyze, and summarize academic research papers in real-time from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed. Provides automatic deduplication, citation analysis, and BibTeX generation across multiple research databases.
Last updated 3 months ago
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MIT License