Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY | No | Your Semantic Scholar API key for accessing the Semantic Scholar API. Sign up at https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| semantic_scholar_search_papers | Search for academic papers. Supports boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), phrase search with quotes. |
| semantic_scholar_get_paper | Get paper details. Accepts: S2 ID, DOI:xxx, ARXIV:xxx, PMID:xxx, CorpusId:xxx |
| semantic_scholar_search_authors | Search for academic authors by name. |
| semantic_scholar_get_author | Get author profile with optional publications list. |
| semantic_scholar_recommendations | Get paper recommendations based on a seed paper. |
| semantic_scholar_bulk_papers | Retrieve multiple papers in a single request (max 500). |
| semantic_scholar_bulk_search | Search papers with sorting and cursor-based pagination for large result sets. Unlike regular search, supports sorting (e.g., by citation count) and returns a continuation token for paging through all results. |
| semantic_scholar_export_citation | Export a citation for a paper in BibTeX format. |
| semantic_scholar_match_paper | Find the single best paper matching a title string. Returns match score. |
| semantic_scholar_paper_authors | Get full author profiles for a paper's authors. |
| semantic_scholar_author_batch | Retrieve multiple authors in a single request (max 1000). |
| semantic_scholar_multi_recommend | Get recommendations using multiple positive and negative example papers. |
| semantic_scholar_snippet_search | Search within paper full text. Returns text snippets with context. |
| semantic_scholar_status | Check server health, API connectivity, and key status. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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