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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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