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smaniches/semantic-scholar-mcp

MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.

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★ 25 stars Last pushed 2026-11-09 License: MIT

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Review any command before running it. Package names and URLs come from the server's own registry entry.

Package (pypi 1.7.15)

uvx s2-mcp-server

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "semantic-scholar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "s2-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_VALUE>"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY secret — Semantic Scholar API key; introductory keys are currently assigned 1 request/second across all endpoints
  • SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_MIN_SECONDS_BETWEEN_REQUESTS — Minimum seconds between authenticated requests. Default 1.1; lower only when Semantic Scholar has explicitly assigned the key a higher quota.

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