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.2018MITWhy 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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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.22MITWhy 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.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.113MITWhy 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.1148 npm2MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar for federated literature search and citation analysis, supporting article search and citation graph data.
Why this server?
Optional literature search source, enabled by providing an API key; without a key it shares a public rate limit and is skipped unless explicitly requested.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceEnables staged, auditable medical literature reviews—search, screening, fetch, and wiki—that produce an evidence-linked Obsidian wiki, with screening decisions, extracted mentions, and synthesis citations checked against stored source text.31PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0Why this server?
Searches academic literature via Semantic Scholar's API, providing normalized metadata and abstracts, with configurable rate limits.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables deep, recursive multi-source scientific literature research across 8+ academic databases, producing cited, evidence-graded reports with red-team review and cost details through an outline-first, user-confirmed workflow.18MITWhy 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.212MITWhy this server?
Allows searching for academic papers via Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceEnables AI agents to perform comprehensive search across 27 search engines including web, academic, code, community, package managers, video, images, podcasts, and maps, with multi-modal support, caching, and security features.14MIT