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Semantic Scholar MCP. Map Research Influence Across Millions of Papers

Semantic Scholar MCP connects your AI agent to a knowledge graph containing over 200 million academic papers. Instantly search across all STEM fields, getting single-sentence summaries of complex research. Track how ideas evolve by finding influential citations and building detailed researcher profiles with metrics like the h-index.

Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Search vast academic databases

Find papers across 200M+ works using AI-generated summaries and filtering by fields like Computer Science or Medicine.

Analyze research influence chains

Determine which other papers cite a specific work, allowing you to trace how an academic idea evolved over time.

Retrieve full paper details by ID

Get complete metadata for any article using its Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, ArXiv ID, or PMID.

Build researcher profiles and metrics

Look up academics to see their total publication count, citation history, and h-index score.

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What AI agents can do with Semantic Scholar: 4 Tools for Deep Research

These tools allow your agent to search millions of academic records, retrieve full paper metadata by ID, profile researchers, and map out complex citation relationships.

Make your AI actually useful.

Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Get Semantic Citations

Finds all the papers that cite a specific work for impact analysis.

Get Semantic Paper

Retrieves full paper details using its Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, ArXiv ID, or PMID.

Search Semantic Author

Returns a researcher's metrics, including their total papers and h-index score.

Search Semantic Scholar

Searches 200M+ academic papers for summaries, citation counts, and fields of study.

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Semantic Scholar MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

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Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Semantic Scholar integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
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Start with Semantic Scholar, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
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  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
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The Pain of Manual Literature Review

Today, researching a topic means opening Google Scholar, clicking through dozens of abstract pages, and copying key details into a spreadsheet. You spend hours downloading PDFs just to read the summary sections, manually tracking who cited what, and piecing together author metrics from multiple academic websites.

With this MCP, you ask your agent for a research overview. It pulls data across 200M+ papers, instantly summarizing key findings into single sentences. You get structured citation maps and full researcher profiles without ever touching an abstract page.

Semantic Scholar MCP: Structured Academic Data

The biggest time drain is the manual cross-referencing of identifiers, or trying to map a concept's development across different databases. You waste minutes just confirming if an author’s work cited by one source was also tracked under a different ID.

This MCP handles all that complexity behind the scenes. By using tools like get_semantic_paper and search_semantic_author, your agent treats every paper and researcher profile as clean, structured data—ready for immediate analysis.

What Semantic Scholar MCP does for your AI

Need to dive into deep academic literature? This MCP gives your AI client access to the world's largest knowledge graph of scholarly papers. You can search across 200M+ works, getting instant, single-sentence summaries that distill the core insight from any paper—a massive time saver compared to reading abstracts.

It goes beyond simple searches. You track true influence by seeing which citations meaningfully build upon a work, not just how many people mentioned it. Whether you're analyzing career trajectories or building a literature review, you can look up papers using their DOI, ArXiv ID, or PubMed ID. The Vinkius catalog makes this data available to any compatible client, letting your agent treat academic research like structured data.

You find researchers by name and immediately pull up metrics, including paper counts and the h-index, giving you a clear picture of who's leading in their field.

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Frequently asked questions about Semantic Scholar MCP

How do I use semantic-scholar to find a specific paper? +

You can use get_semantic_paper. You don't need the title; just provide any unique identifier like its DOI, ArXiv ID (e.g., arXiv:2106.09685), or PMID.

Can semantic-scholar track which papers are most influential? +

Yes. The main search function provides 'influential citation counts.' This is better than a simple count because it measures how meaningfully a paper builds on prior work.

What data does the search_semantic_author tool provide? +

It gives you a clear profile of an academic, including their total number of papers published, their overall citation count, and their career impact metric (h-index).

Is semantic-scholar useful for general topics or just AI/ML? +

It covers all STEM fields—Computer Science, Medicine, Biology, Physics, and more. While it's strong in AI/ML, its scope is vast.

Can I find out what papers cited an old classic paper using get_semantic_citations? +

Absolutely. You provide the ID of the 'classic paper,' and the tool returns a list of all newer works that have built upon it, forming an influence chain.