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Semantic Scholar MCP Server

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

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★ 21 stars Last pushed 2026-09-21 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 1.7.4)

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 for higher rate limits (free at semanticscholar.org/product/api)

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