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Search 214M+ academic papers, explore citations and references, discover authors, and get recommended reads for literature reviews — from chat.
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Search the paper corpus
Keyword discovery across the Semantic Scholar paper index.
Search Semantic Scholar for retrieval-augmented generation papers from the last three years and summarize the top matches with citation counts.
Citation network on one paper
Connect Semantic Scholar to any MCP client in minutes
Opens ChatGPT on the web or desktop and asks it to use the WebMCP tools available here.
You’ll sign in to MCPBundles when your client connects.
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Opens ChatGPT on the web or desktop and asks it to use the WebMCP tools available here.
You’ll sign in to MCPBundles when your client connects.
https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/semantic-scholarSign in once, then chat here with saved access — one connection to many servers, with a history of what your AI ran.
Chat with AI and run tools instantly.
Browse all toolsIncoming and outgoing citation edges for impact analysis.
Find Attention Is All You Need in Semantic Scholar, then list its citations and references and highlight the five most influential citing papers.
Expand a reading list
Recommendation and similarity tools for review expansion.
Given three core papers on AI agents, recommend similar Semantic Scholar papers I should read next and explain why each fits.
Author and snippet research
Author profiles plus snippet search for targeted evidence gathering.
Search Semantic Scholar for Yoshua Bengio, pull his recent papers, and find snippet passages about scaling laws across his work.
What is Semantic Scholar MCP?
It lets AI agents search Semantic Scholar's catalog of 214M+ papers, open paper and author profiles, walk citations and references, and surface recommended reads after you add the server in MCPBundles.
Who is Semantic Scholar MCP for?
Researchers and review leads who need paper discovery, citation context, author lookup, and reading-list expansion without leaving their AI chat.
Can an agent map citations from chat?
Yes. Open a paper, then list papers that cite it or papers it references to trace influence, find seminal work, or build a structured review outline.
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Semantic Scholar Research Workflows with AI
How AI agents can search Semantic Scholar's paper corpus, explore citations and references, look up authors, and expand reading lists from chat.
Domain knowledge for Semantic Scholar — workflow patterns, data models, and gotchas for your AI agent.
Semantic Scholar provides Academic Graph and Recommendations APIs. Search 214M+ papers, explore citations, discover authors, get recommendations. Configured credentials get a dedicated rate-limit pool.
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batch_authorsFetch Semantic Scholar details for multiple authors in a single request (up to 1000 IDs). Returns name, affiliations, paper count, citation count, and h-index for each author.
Try in chatIt lets AI agents search Semantic Scholar's catalog of 214M+ papers, open paper and author profiles, walk citations and references, and surface recommended reads after you add the server in MCPBundles.
Researchers and review leads who need paper discovery, citation context, author lookup, and reading-list expansion without leaving their AI chat.
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Yes. Open a paper, then list papers that cite it or papers it references to trace influence, find seminal work, or build a structured review outline.
Add the server in MCPBundles and start searching. Optional free access from Semantic Scholar improves rate limits for sustained literature review sessions.
Add the MCPBundles server URL to your MCP client configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.). The URL format is: https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/semantic-scholar. Authentication is handled automatically.
Semantic Scholar provides 14 tools that can be called by AI agents, along with a SKILL.md that gives your AI agent domain knowledge about when and how to use them.
Semantic Scholar uses open data APIs — no authentication required.
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