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Semantic Scholar Fastmcp MCP Server
YUZongmin/semantic-scholar-fastmcp-mcp-server
A FastMCP server implementation for the Semantic Scholar API, providing comprehensive access to academic paper data, author information, and citation networks.
Install
uvx semantic-scholar-fastmcpClient configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"semantic-scholar-fastmcp"
],
"env": {
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Environment variables
SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY- GitHub stars
- 24
- Author
- @YUZongmin
- Category
- Research & Data, Search Tools
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
About Semantic Scholar Fastmcp MCP Server
Looking for Claude Code skills? Check out semantic-scholar-skills — the next-generation toolkit that bundles this MCP server with ready-to-use Claude Code skills (/expand-references, /trace-citations, /paper-triage) and a Python workflow engine.
Features
Paper Search & Discovery
Citation Analysis
Author Information
Advanced Features
Tools (16)
paper_relevance_search
Search for papers using relevance ranking
paper_bulk_search
Bulk paper search with sorting options
paper_title_search
Find papers by exact title match
paper_details
Get comprehensive details about a specific paper
paper_batch_details
Efficiently retrieve details for multiple papers
paper_authors
Get the authors associated with a specific paper
paper_autocomplete
Get paper title suggestions for a partial query
snippet_search
Search within paper snippets and excerpts
paper_citations
Get papers that cite a specific paper
paper_references
Get papers referenced by a specific paper
author_search
Search for authors by name
author_details
Get detailed information about an author
author_papers
Get papers written by an author
author_batch_details
Get details for multiple authors
get_paper_recommendations_single
Get recommendations based on a single paper
get_paper_recommendations_multi
Get recommendations based on multiple papers
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Supported clients
Clients mentioned in this server's README:
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