Semantic Scholar Mcp

A local MCP server that lets an assistant search academic papers and read citation information from Semantic Scholar, with no API key required.

What you can do

Search Semantic Scholar for academic papers by topic or query and return matching results to the assistant. Retrieve citation information for papers so the assistant can trace which works cite or are cited by a given paper. No API key is needed, so the assistant can query the service directly once the server is running.

When to use it

Useful when you want an assistant to look up scholarly literature, find papers on a research topic, or follow citation links between works during research or writing tasks.

Requirements

Runs as a local process on the user's machine, installed from the npm package semantic-scholar-mcp over stdio, so Node.js and npm are needed. No API key, environment variables or headers are declared. Network access to Semantic Scholar is required. Desktop only; not available as a web executable.