Check whether the Research Intelligence MCP server is running and return its current runtime metadata.

Search for academic papers across Semantic Scholar, arXiv, or both providers.

Use this tool when the user wants to:

• discover papers about a research topic;

• find literature related to a research question;

• search for a known paper title;

• find papers by keywords or an author name;

• restrict results by publication year;

• restrict results by academic field or arXiv category;

• request papers with known open-access metadata;

• compare results from Semantic Scholar and arXiv.

The tool executes selected providers concurrently, preserves successful results when another provider fails, merges duplicate papers, preserves provider provenance, and returns deterministic provider-neutral paper records.

The response includes:

• canonical paper metadata;

• normalized paper identifiers;

• author and publication metadata;

• known access URLs;

• provider attribution;

• pagination metadata;

• non-fatal warnings;

• normalized partial-provider failures.

This tool performs academic paper discovery only. It does not summarize papers, answer research questions, synthesize evidence, or generate research reports.

Retrieve canonical metadata for a single academic paper.

Supported identifiers depend on the selected provider and may include:

• DOI;

• arXiv identifier;

• Semantic Scholar paper identifier;

• Semantic Scholar CorpusId;

• PubMed identifier.

Use arXiv for direct arXiv metadata retrieval. Use Semantic Scholar when richer citation counts, reference counts, publication metadata, and external identifiers are required.

This tool returns provider-neutral structured metadata. It does not summarize the paper or read the full paper content.

Retrieve papers that cite a specified academic paper.

This tool traverses the citation graph from an origin paper to papers that cite it. Each returned relationship may include:

• canonical citing-paper metadata;

• citation contexts;

• citation intent labels;

• influential-citation status.

Semantic Scholar supports citation graph retrieval. arXiv does not expose a citation graph API and will return a normalized unsupported-operation error.

This tool retrieves structured graph metadata only. It does not synthesize or summarize the citing papers.

Retrieve papers referenced by a specified academic paper.

This tool traverses the reference graph from an origin paper to papers listed in its bibliography. Each returned relationship may include:

• canonical referenced-paper metadata;

• reference contexts;

• intent labels;

• influential-reference status.

Semantic Scholar supports reference graph retrieval. arXiv does not expose a reference graph API and will return a normalized unsupported-operation error.

This tool retrieves structured graph metadata only. It does not evaluate the quality of the references.

Retrieve papers related to a specified academic paper.

The selected paper is used as a positive recommendation seed. Optional negative paper identifiers can be supplied to reduce recommendations similar to those papers.

Semantic Scholar supports related-paper recommendations. arXiv does not expose a related-paper recommendation API and will return a normalized unsupported operation error.

This tool returns canonical paper records. It does not explain why each paper was recommended.

Resolve known access information for an academic paper.

The tool retrieves the paper through the selected provider and returns its canonical access metadata, including:

• open, closed, or unknown access status;

• landing-page URL;

• direct PDF URL when available;

• known license;

• repository or provider hosting the accessible copy.

This tool resolves metadata only. It does not download, parse, or return the paper PDF.