Semantic Scholar

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Semantic Scholar MCP — Academic paper search and citation data (free, no auth)

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_papers

Search academic papers across all fields of science. Returns title, abstract, TL;DR summary, authors, citation count, year, journal, and open access PDF links. Example: search_papers("transformer atte

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get_paper

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 journ

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get_author

Get an academic author profile by Semantic Scholar author ID. Returns name, affiliations, h-index, total citations, paper count, and recent publications. Use search_papers first to find author IDs.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/semantic-scholar/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/semantic-scholar/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_papers","arguments":{}}}'