Best Semantic Scholar MCP Servers
Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) to help scholars discover and understand research papers.
Why this server?
Allows routing to the Semantic Scholar Graph API via HyperRoute, enabling agents to search academic papers and citations and execute queries server-side after connecting a key.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceMCP server for HyperRoute, a router that recommends and executes the best external tool for AI agent tasks, with server-side key management and outcome feedback.27MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
Why this server?
Provides scholarly context graph integration via Semantic Scholar for following scholarship.
Why this server?
Provides access to Semantic Scholar's academic paper data for multi-source research retrieval, including paper search and citation-aware ranking.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI agents to retrieve clean, anti-poisoned research context from academic papers, GitHub repositories, and web search, with built-in prompt injection defenses and zero-cost reranking.6GPL 3.0Why this server?
Uses Semantic Scholar as a scholarly source for verifying citation existence, metadata, and supporting claim-level evidence.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that verifies the existence, metadata accuracy, and claim support of academic citations by querying sources like OpenAlex, Crossref, and arXiv, enabling AI agents to fact-check references.71MITWhy this server?
Search papers and use API from Semantic Scholar with optional API key for higher rate limits.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceMulti-source academic paper search, citation graph exploration, and PDF download as an MCP server, designed for LLM agents doing research.62Apache 2.0Why this server?
Enables academic research by searching paper titles, abstracts, citations, and finding PDF sources.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenancePay-per-use API tools and LLM gateway for AI agents. 15 services (DART, Tabelog, Google Maps, Brave Search, Firecrawl, DeepL, ElevenLabs, and more) + smart LLM routing. No API keys needed, pay with USDC on Base.25282MITWhy this server?
Provides AI-powered citation analysis, abstracts, and impact metrics for academic papers.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceMCP server enabling AI agents to search and retrieve scientific papers, citations, and author profiles from Crossref, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar with no API keys required.53MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar to search academic papers with improved rate limits.