msl2246/semanticsearch-mcp-server

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The Semantic Scholar MCP Server is a comprehensive Model Context Protocol server that provides access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API with streaming HTTP support.

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

search_papers

Search academic papers with advanced filtering

get_paper_details

Get detailed information about a specific paper

get_paper_authors

Get authors of a specific paper

get_paper_citations

Get citations of a specific paper

get_paper_references

Get references of a specific paper

search_authors

Search for authors

get_author_details

Get detailed author information

get_author_papers

Get papers by a specific author

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

No resources

Author

msl2246

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Repository

https://github.com/msl2246/semanticsearch-mcp-server

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Last publish date

2025-06-29

Last update date

2025-10-05

Server configs

in claude desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-scholar": {
      "command": "semanticsearch-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "stdio",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "INFO"
      }
    }
  }
}

via uvx in claude desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-scholar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from", 
        "git+https://github.com/msl2246/semanticsearch-mcp-server", 
        "semanticsearch-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "stdio",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "INFO"
      }
    }
  }
}