Connect Claude Code to Semantic Scholar
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Claude Code, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Semantic Scholar
A preset of real Semantic Scholar operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Semantic Scholar
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Claude Code first calls in. Claude Code connects when a session starts — run claude, or restart a running one.
Run this in your terminal
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Tools Claude Code gets
Semantic Scholar
13 toolsSearch papers by relevance; one page of at most 100 results.
Retrieve a bulk search page; copy its token for the next page.
Find the best paper title match.
Suggest paper completions for a partial query.
Retrieve a paper by Semantic Scholar ID, DOI, arXiv ID or other supported ID.
Retrieve one page of a paper's authors.
Retrieve one page of papers citing this paper.
Retrieve one page of papers referenced by this paper.
Retrieve up to 500 papers in one POST read; missing papers may be null.
Search authors by name.
Retrieve an author's profile and requested research metrics.
Retrieve one page of an author's papers.
Retrieve up to 1000 author profiles in one POST read.
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