Semantic Scholar API
APIFree API for scholarly papers, authors and citations from Ai2
- Price
- Free
- Access
- None; optional API key
About
The Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API from Ai2 serves data on 214M papers, 79M authors and 2.49B citations, plus paper recommendations and bulk dataset downloads. Most endpoints work without a key on a shared, often busy rate limit; a free key gives 1 request per second.
What you can do with it
- Search papers by keyword and get titles, abstracts and citation counts
- Follow a paper's citations and references to map related work
- Get recommended papers similar to a given paper
Get started
- Call the API without a key for light use
- Request a free API key for a dedicated rate limit
- Send the key in the x-api-key header
Example
curl "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=large+language+models&fields=title,year,citationCount&limit=3"Details
- Hosting
- Hosted service
- Available in
- Worldwide
- MCP server
- None
