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?
Provides tools to search academic papers from Semantic Scholar, enabling retrieval of paper metadata and citations.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenancePay-per-call AI agent APIs on Base via x402. Multiple tools across patents, law, AI, geo, weather, crypto, and more. Always growing.2018MITWhy this server?
Allows searching over 200 million academic papers with AI-powered recommendations and citation graphs.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceProvides access to 61 public digital libraries through a single unified interface, enabling users to search and retrieve information from academic papers, books, legal records, and more using natural language.411292 npm1MITWhy 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.

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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.33MITWhy this server?
Primary service for advanced paper search, citation graph exploration, recommendations, and metadata retrieval.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceA literature review assistant that enables AI agents to search, explore, and cite academic papers via the Semantic Scholar API. It provides 15 specialized tools for tasks like advanced search, citation graph analysis, and generating formatted citations.15MITWhy this server?
Integrates with the Semantic Scholar academic API to retrieve scholarly citations and research evidence for creating structured knowledge cards.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceA self-improving knowledge agent that provides local retrieval, web research, and structured answer synthesis for Claude Code and VS Code Copilot via MCP. It enables AI tools to manage a project-specific knowledge lifecycle through automated research and indexing.129MITWhy this server?
Provides search capabilities for academic papers through Semantic Scholar's Graph API, with optional API key for higher rate limits.
AlicenseAqualityNot gradedmaintenanceA metasearch backend MCP server that aggregates results from multiple search engines and knowledge sources into structured JSON for AI agents. It provides unified search capabilities across web, academic, developer, and knowledge providers through MCP tools.515MITWhy this server?
Allows searching academic literature through the Semantic Scholar API, with tools for relevance search, batch metadata retrieval, and citation-graph recommendations.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables searching academic literature via Semantic Scholar with relevance filters, batch metadata retrieval, and citation-graph recommendations.5AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Provides related paper recommendations based on library seeds, similar to Connected Papers, via the find_related_papers tool.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceMCP server that lets AI assistants search, create, organize, and cite from a Zotero library.393MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for AI-powered academic paper search and analysis from Semantic Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables unified access to 110 life science APIs and databases, including genomics, proteomics, chemistry, literature, and clinical data. Users can query genes, proteins, compounds, pathways, and more through natural language.3MIT