Semantic Scholar

aid: semantic-scholar
name: Semantic Scholar
description: 'Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered academic search engine developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
  that indexes over 214 million scholarly papers with 2.49 billion citations and 79 million authors. The platform provides
  a public REST API organized into three services: Academic Graph (papers, authors, citations, venues, and SPECTER2 embeddings),
  Recommendations (paper similarity and interest-based suggestions), and Datasets (bulk downloadable corpus snapshots updated
  monthly). API access is available without authentication at a shared rate limit, or with a free API key obtained via request
  for a dedicated 1 RPS allowance. Semantic Scholar supports AI agent integrations through multiple community-built MCP servers
  that expose its academic graph to LLM-based toolchains.

  '
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Academic
- Research
- Papers
- Citations
- Authors
- Scientific Literature
- AI
- Recommendations
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/semantic-scholar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- name: Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API
  description: 'RESTful API providing access to 214M+ academic papers, 79M authors, 2.49B citations, venues, and SPECTER2
    vector embeddings. Supports single-item lookups, keyword search, bulk retrieval, and citation/reference traversal.

    '
  humanURL: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
  baseURL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1
  tags:
  - Papers
  - Authors
  - Citations
  - Search
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/semantic-scholar-academic-graph-openapi.yml
- name: Semantic Scholar Recommendations API
  description: 'Returns recommended papers similar to a given publication or aligned with a learned model of a researcher''s
    topical interests. Supports both single-paper and multi-paper positive/negative input modes.

    '
  humanURL: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
  baseURL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  - Papers
  - Machine Learning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/recommendations
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/semantic-scholar-recommendations-openapi.yml
- name: Semantic Scholar Datasets API
  description: 'Provides downloadable bulk snapshots of the full Semantic Scholar academic graph, updated monthly. Supports
    incremental diff downloads between releases. Requires an API key for authentication.

    '
  humanURL: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
  baseURL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/datasets/v1
  tags:
  - Datasets
  - Bulk Download
  - Corpus
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/semantic-scholar-datasets-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/allenai
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/allenai/s2-folks
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/ai2-blog/semantic-scholar/home
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.api.semanticscholar.org/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/SemanticScholar
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api/license
- type: Tutorial
  url: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api/tutorial
- type: Plans
  url: plans/semantic-scholar-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/semantic-scholar-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/semantic-scholar-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com