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Search Semantic Scholar for paper metadata, citations, and author details.
This MCP tool appears narrowly scoped to retrieving Semantic Scholar academic paper metadata. It is open-source and requires no credentials, but it does execute local code, and its third-party source has low community adoption with unknown maintenance, so the overall posture is low-to-moderate risk with caution.
The materials explicitly state that no keys or environment variables are required. There is no indication that API tokens, account credentials, or other sensitive secrets must be provided, so credential exposure and abuse risk appears low.
Its stated function is to search and retrieve Semantic Scholar paper metadata, which implies outbound network requests and possible transmission of user queries to the relevant academic service. Although no remote host is explicitly listed and there is no clear red flag of unrelated exfiltration, outbound network activity still warrants caution.
The system checks indicate that this tool executes code, meaning it runs a local MCP service process or related program. This is a common property of MCP tools, and the provided materials do not show requests for elevated system capabilities unrelated to paper metadata retrieval.
Based on the description, its data scope is limited to academic paper metadata, citations, and author information. The materials do not state that it needs to read or write local files, access databases, modify system resources, or request broad data permissions, so there is no apparent sign of overbroad access.
Positive factors include that the project is open-source under the MIT License, making the source code auditable in principle. However, it comes from a third-party registry, has 0 GitHub stars, and its maintenance status is unknown, so trust and maintenance evidence are limited; reviewing the repository and dependencies before use is advisable.
Copy the install command and let the AI configure it · recommended for beginners
No copy-paste install info for "semantic-scholar-mcp" yet — see the docs or source repo.
Use semantic-scholar-mcp to search for papers on "applications of graph neural networks in drug discovery" and return the 10 most relevant papers from the last five years with title, authors, year, abstract, and citation count.
A relevance-ranked paper list with core metadata and citation information.
Use semantic-scholar-mcp to retrieve details for the paper "Attention Is All You Need" and list its high-impact citing papers and key author information.
The paper's metadata, citation-network leads, and summarized author profiles.
Use semantic-scholar-mcp to look up Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, then compare their recent representative papers, research topics, and citation performance.
An author comparison summarizing research areas, representative works, and impact metrics.
Search Semantic Scholar papers and download PDFs for faster literature research.
Search academic papers, fetch metadata in bulk, and discover citation-based recommendations.
Search academic papers, analyze authors, and organize research with Semantic Scholar.
Search academic papers, analyze citations, and uncover related scientific work.
Search academic papers, analyze citations, and get author and topic recommendations.
Search academic literature across major databases and manage references efficiently.