`get_paper`

Pack: semantic-scholar · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/semantic-scholar/mcp

Get full details for an academic paper by its Semantic Scholar paper ID, DOI, ArXiv ID, or other identifier. Returns title, abstract, TL;DR, authors, citations, references, open access link, and journal info. Example: get_paper(“DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2”)

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`paper_id`	string	yes	Paper identifier: Semantic Scholar ID, “DOI:10.xxx”, “ArXiv:xxxx.xxxxx”, “PMID:xxxxxxxx”, or “CorpusId:xxxxxxxx”

Example call

Arguments

{
  "paper_id": "DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/semantic-scholar/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_paper","arguments":{"paper_id":"DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('get_paper', {
  "paper_id": "DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2"
});

More examples

{
  "paper_id": "ArXiv:2312.10997"
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`paper_id`	string \| null	Semantic Scholar paper ID
`title`	string \| null	Paper title
`abstract`	string \| null	Paper abstract
`tldr`	string \| null	TL;DR summary of the paper
`year`	number \| null	Publication year
`publication_date`	string \| null	Full publication date
`citation_count`	number \| null	Number of citations
`influential_citations`	number \| null	Number of influential citations
`reference_count`	number \| null	Number of references in the paper
`is_open_access`	boolean \| null	Whether the paper is open access
`open_access_pdf`	string \| null	URL to open access PDF if available
`fields_of_study`	array	Fields of study tags
`publication_types`	array	Publication type tags
`journal`	string \| null	Journal name
`venue`	string \| null	Publication venue
`url`	string \| null	URL to the paper
`doi`	string \| null	Digital Object Identifier
`authors`	array	Paper authors

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "paper_id": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Semantic Scholar paper ID"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Paper title"
    },
    "abstract": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Paper abstract"
    },
    "tldr": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "TL;DR summary of the paper"
    },
    "year": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Publication year"
    },
    "publication_date": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Full publication date"
    },
    "citation_count": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Number of citations"
    },
    "influential_citations": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Number of influential citations"
    },
    "reference_count": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Number of references in the paper"
    },
    "is_open_access": {
      "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Whether the paper is open access"
    },
    "open_access_pdf": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "URL to open access PDF if available"
    },
    "fields_of_study": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Fields of study tags",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "publication_types": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Publication type tags",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "journal": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Journal name"
    },
    "venue": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Publication venue"
    },
    "url": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "URL to the paper"
    },
    "doi": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Digital Object Identifier"
    },
    "authors": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Paper authors",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Author ID"
          },
          "name": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Author name"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-scholar": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/semantic-scholar/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

get_paper