Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar Paper Data API

The Paper Data API from Semantic Scholar — 9 operation(s) for paper data.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Scholarly Output & Publication Management BC-4780.40

Operations 9

GET /paper/autocomplete Suggest paper query completions #
POST /paper/batch Get details for multiple papers at once #
GET /paper/{paper_id} Details about a paper #
GET /paper/{paper_id}/authors Details about a paper's authors #
GET /paper/{paper_id}/citations Details about a paper's citations #
GET /paper/{paper_id}/references Details about a paper's references #

Documentation

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https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/
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Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/semantic-scholar/refs/heads/main/openapi/semantic-scholar-paper-data-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

semantic-scholar-paper-data-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Academic Graph Paper Data API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Fetch paper and author data from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph (S2AG).
servers:
- url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1
tags:


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