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.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenancePay-per-call AI agent APIs on Base via x402. Multiple tools across patents, law, AI, geo, weather, crypto, and more. Always growing.2016MITWhy 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.27MITWhy 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.61MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching academic papers, retrieving paper details, citations, references, author information, and getting paper recommendations using the Semantic Scholar API.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceMCP server that provides Semantic Scholar academic search capabilities, including paper search, detail query, citation analysis, author search, and intelligent recommendations.9837MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar API for AI-powered literature search and citation analysis.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAutomates academic research from multi-source search to APA 7 formatted .docx output.14MITWhy 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?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar to search academic papers with improved rate limits.
Why 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.53MITWhy this server?
Search papers and use API from Semantic Scholar with optional API key for higher rate limits.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceMulti-source academic paper search, citation graph exploration, and PDF download as an MCP server, designed for LLM agents doing research.101MIT