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.

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.

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.

Semantic Scholar MCP Server

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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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Capacités intégrées (4)

get_semantic_citations

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

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

search_semantic_author

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

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

Ce que ce connecteur débloque

Connect your AI agent to the world's most AI-enhanced academic knowledge graph, built and maintained by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2).

What you can do

AI-Powered Search — Find papers across 200M+ works with AI-generated TLDR summaries that distill each paper into a single sentence of key insight
Influential Citations — Beyond simple citation count, see how many influential citations a paper has received — those that meaningfully build upon the cited work
Multi-Format Lookup — Access papers by Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, ArXiv ID (arXiv:2106.09685), or PubMed ID (PMID:12345)
Citation Graph — Explore the full citation chain of any paper, with TLDR summaries for each citing work
Researcher Profiles — Find academics by name with paper counts, total citations, and h-index metrics

How it works

1. Subscribe to this server
2. Start searching 200M+ papers immediately — no API key required for basic usage

Who is this for?

AI/ML Researchers — find relevant papers in your field with instant TLDR summaries to quickly assess relevance before reading the full text
Graduate Students — build comprehensive literature reviews using the citation graph to trace how ideas evolve across the academic landscape
R&D Teams — evaluate researcher impact using influential citation counts and h-index metrics for talent scouting or collaboration decisions

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