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Use Semantic Scholar with your AI.

Connect your account once and let the AI you already use work with it, without building another integration. Search 200M+ academic papers with AI-powered TLDR summaries, influential citation tracking, and researcher profiles from the Allen Institute for AI.

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Works with modern AI clients that support MCP, including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more.

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Complete set · 4 capabilities

The complete Semantic Scholar capability set.

These are the exact actions your AI can choose when you ask it to work with Semantic Scholar.

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4 capabilities in this set.

Part of 4 available through Semantic Scholar.

  1. 01

    Search semantic author

    Returns paper count, total citations, and h-index for each researcher. Find researchers and their publication metrics on Semantic Scholar

  2. 02

    Search semantic scholar

    Returns papers with AI-generated TLDR summaries, citation counts, influential citation counts, and fields of study. Covers Computer Science, Medicine, Biology, Physics, and all STEM fields. Search 200M+ academic papers with AI-powered TLDR summaries and influence scores

  3. 03

    Get semantic citations

    Essential for literature reviews and impact analysis. Find papers that cite a specific work on Semantic Scholar

  4. 04

    Get semantic paper

    Accepts Semantic Scholar paper ID, DOI, ArXiv ID (e.g. arXiv:2106.09685), or PMID (e.g. PMID:12345). Get full paper details from Semantic Scholar by paper ID or DOI

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899ms average. Fast in production.

Semantic Scholar is checked daily against the live service.

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Connect your client

One URL. Every client.

Activate the Connector, copy your link, and paste it into the client you already use. 4 capabilities arrive ready to run.

Preview access · not provider authentication

The vk_preview_* token belongs to Vinkius preview infrastructure. It lets Claude discover and display the capabilities of Semantic Scholar, so you can see the experience inside your AI.

It does not authenticate your account with Semantic Scholar. Actions requiring credentials or live account data may not run until you activate the Connector and authorize the service.

Semantic Scholar Connector

You're all set. Choose your MCP client and follow the setup instructions.

Connector linkhttps://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_8zAprfIHUkrZA9BorlGo4lSh4aqrzDrrqy7KLAZz/mcp

Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — Semantic Scholar capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-scholar-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_8zAprfIHUkrZA9BorlGo4lSh4aqrzDrrqy7KLAZz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
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Step-by-step instructions for each client are in the guide. How to connect

FAQ

Questions Semantic Scholar owners ask.

  • 01

    Do I need an API key to use Semantic Scholar?

    No API key is required for basic usage. The public API provides 5,000 requests per 5 minutes shared among unauthenticated users. For higher throughput, academic and institutional users can request a free API key at semanticscholar.org, which grants dedicated rate limits of 1–10 requests per second depending on the endpoint.

  • 02

    What is the TLDR feature and how does it work?

    TLDR (Too Long; Didn't Read) is an AI-generated one-sentence summary of each paper, powered by Allen AI's SciTLDR NLP model. It distills the key contribution or finding of a paper into a single, easily digestible sentence. ideal for quickly scanning relevance without reading an entire abstract or paper.

  • 03

    What is the difference between total citations and influential citations?

    Total citations count every paper that references the work. Influential citations are a subset. papers where the cited work meaningfully contributes to the citing paper's research (not just a passing mention in the related work section). This metric is calculated by Semantic Scholar's AI models and provides a much more accurate measure of real scientific impact.

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