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?
Enriches Zotero items by resolving missing metadata and supporting import through Semantic Scholar's API.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceA Zotero MCP server built for agent safety: a capability-tagged tool registry (every command carries operation/requires/destructive annotations), preview-first writes behind a mutation journal, and read-only defaults. Single Go binary with an MCPB one-click manifest for Claude Desktop.Last updated261MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
Why this server?
Provides AI-powered semantic search with citation networks, research field filtering, and direct access to open access PDFs.
AlicenseBqualityCmaintenanceEnables searching and downloading academic papers from 14 platforms including arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Springer, and Sci-Hub with unified data format and intelligent rate limiting.Last updated6419401177MITWhy this server?
Integrates Semantic Scholar API for enhanced citation and full-text access, configurable via API key.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceAn intelligent research assistant MCP server for AI agents, providing task-oriented literature search and analysis across multiple academic databases.Last updated24620Apache 2.0Why this server?
Searches academic papers from Semantic Scholar as part of multi-source scholarly search, providing access to scholarly literature with citation data and metadata.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceYour AI's research copilot. Searches 6 academic databases, downloads real PDFs, reads them cover to cover, extracts evidence, renders figures, syncs to Zotero.Last updated1610MITWhy this server?
Serves as a fallback source to gather academic metadata and discussion details for processed URLs.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceGive your AI the ability to read the web. Fetches URLs as clean markdown with 9 fallback strategies.Last updated21058MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to retrieve academic paper metadata, citations, and references from Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables retrieval of academic paper metadata, PDFs, full text, citations, and references by title via Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and other sources.Last updated61MITWhy this server?
Provides scholarly context graph integration via Semantic Scholar for following scholarship.
Why this server?
Integrates with Semantic Scholar API for AI-powered literature search and citation analysis.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAutomates academic research from multi-source search to APA 7 formatted .docx output.Last updated14MIT