Semantic Scholar

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Semantic Scholar Academic Graph MCP.

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_papers

Search 200M+ academic papers on Semantic Scholar by keyword. Returns titles, authors, year, venue, citation counts, DOI, and open-access PDF links. Optionally filter by year range and field of study.

No parameters required.

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get_paper

Get full metadata for a single paper by ID. Accepts a Semantic Scholar paper ID, or a prefixed ID like "DOI:10.1145/3292500", "arXiv:2106.15928", or "CorpusId:215416146". Returns abstract, TLDR summar

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get_paper_citations

List papers that CITE a given paper (the works citing it), with their titles, authors, year, and citation counts. Useful for forward citation tracing and finding follow-up work. Keyless.

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get_author

Search for academic authors by name on Semantic Scholar. Returns up to 5 matches with affiliations, paper count, total citation count, h-index, and profile URL. Keyless.

No parameters required.

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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/semanticscholar/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/semanticscholar/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_papers","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_papers", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("semantic scholar academic graph mcp");