The Semantic Scholar MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Semantic Scholar account. It provides structured and secure access to academic papers, author profiles, citations, recommendations, and dataset releases, so your agent can search literature, examine research, explore authors, find related papers, and retrieve dataset information on your behalf.
- Academic paper discovery: Have your agent search papers by relevance, run bulk literature searches, find a paper by title, complete partial queries, or locate matching text snippets within papers.
- Paper details and authorship: Let the agent retrieve details about one or more papers, identify their authors, and review key information about each work.
- Citations and references: Direct your agent to inspect the papers that cite a study and the references used by that study.
- Author research: Instruct your agent to search for researchers by name, review author profiles and publication statistics, or examine papers written by selected authors.
- Recommendations and research datasets: Have your agent find related papers from positive and negative examples, list dataset releases, review release details, and retrieve dataset downloads or incremental updates.