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Semantic Scholar Paper Search Example

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Semantic Scholar Paper Search Example is an example object payload from Semantic Scholar, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=attention+is+all+you+need&fields=title,authors,year,citationCount,abstract&limit=3"
  },
  "response": {
    "total": 1,
    "offset": 0,
    "next": 1,
    "data": [
      {
        "paperId": "204e3073870fae3d05bcbc2f6a8e263d9b72e776",
        "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
        "abstract": "The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder.",
        "year": 2017,
        "citationCount": 90000,
        "authors": [
          { "authorId": "40348417", "name": "Ashish Vaswani" },
          { "authorId": "2729164", "name": "Noam Shazeer" },
          { "authorId": "3224336", "name": "Niki Parmar" }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

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