# Semantic Scholar MCP Server

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

Record `semantic-scholar-mcp-server` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/semantic-scholar-mcp-server/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/semantic-scholar-mcp-server
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/semantic-scholar-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- publisher: smaniches
- homepage: https://smaniches.github.io/semantic-scholar-mcp/
- repository: https://github.com/smaniches/semantic-scholar-mcp
- version: 1.7.10
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: academic-research, claude, llm, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, python, research-tools, semantic-scholar
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:s2-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

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

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/s2-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-07T03:23:05.124Z)
- mcp_registry: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers/io.github.smaniches%2Fsemantic-scholar-mcp (first seen 2026-09-07T03:22:03.775Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/semantic-scholar-mcp-server/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/semantic-scholar-mcp-server · ARD identifier urn:air::server:semantic-scholar-mcp-server