Semantic Scholar MCP Server
local MCP serverInstallation
Terminal
claude mcp add io-github-smaniches-semantic-scholar-mcp -e SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=... -- uvx s2-mcp-server
Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.
Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients
Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"io-github-smaniches-semantic-scholar-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"s2-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "..."
}
}
}
}Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.
Summary
MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.
Questions
Semantic Scholar MCP Server is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package s2-mcp-server.
Run: claude mcp add io-github-smaniches-semantic-scholar-mcp -e SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=... -- uvx s2-mcp-server
Run: codex mcp add io-github-smaniches-semantic-scholar-mcp --env SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=... -- uvx s2-mcp-server
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