9 tools that work with Semantic Scholar: 2 MCP servers, 7 Agent Skills and 0 Claude Code plugins. 0 of the remote servers answered our live check, 0 worked without an API key, and 0 come from an official or verified publisher. Ranked by GitHub stars plus official, live and free-to-try signals.
Most common uses: Web search engines & search APIs (4), Research, papers & reference data (4), Unusual, one-of-a-kind tools (1).
| Tool | Stars | Last update | License | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| semantic-scholar Search published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadat SkillInstall · skills CLI | 19,162 | MIT | ||
| i1 Paper Retrieval Agent - Multi-database paper fetching from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv Handles rate limiting, deduplication, and PDF URL extract SkillInstall · skills CLI | 5,013 | — | ||
| Subagent-Driven Literature Review Use parallel subagents for large-scale paper screening and deep dive analysis SkillInstall · skills CLI | 5,013 | — | ||
| Traversing Citation Networks Smart backward and forward citation following via Semantic Scholar, with relevance filtering and deduplication SkillInstall · skills CLI | 5,013 | — | ||
| litbase Academic paper reading and research development system for biomedical researchers. Finds papers via Semantic Scholar, reads with structured notes, tra SkillInstall · skills CLI | 2,054 | MIT | ||
| literature-review-agent Step 3 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). Execute the literature search strategy from outline.json — discover candidate papers via web SkillInstall · skills CLI | 703 | — | ||
| semantic-scholar-deep Deep research over the Semantic Scholar Graph API. Covers endpoints missing from allenai's lookup skill — paper references (backward citations), recom SkillInstall · skills CLI | 181 | MIT | ||
| Semantic Scholar MCP Server MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · PyPI | 26 | MIT | ||
| io.github.SMABoundless/semanticscholar Search 200M+ papers, authors, citations, and recommendations via Semantic Scholar MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · npm | 0 | — |