Semantic Scholar API

Provides access to scientific literature data including paper metadata, citations, references, and author profiles from the Semantic Scholar corpus. Supports search, batch, and bulk queries with lookups by DOI, arXiv ID, and other academic identifiers.

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Slug: semanticscholar
Key: semanticscholar.org:semantic-scholar-api
Base URL: https://api.semanticscholar.org/
Auth: none
Endpoints: 16
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 22:15:13.565863

Links

Homepage: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
API Base: https://api.semanticscholar.org/
SDKs:

Topics

KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, SEARCH

Endpoints (16)

Path Summary Response Auth
author/search Search for authors by name application/json
author/{author_id} Details about an author application/json
author/{author_id}/papers Details about an author's papers text/html
graph/v1/author/search Search authors application/json
graph/v1/author/{authorId} Get author details application/json
graph/v1/paper/search Search papers text/html
graph/v1/paper/{paperId} Get paper details text/html
paper/autocomplete Suggest paper query completions application/json
paper/search Paper relevance search text/html
paper/search/bulk Paper bulk search text/html
paper/search/match Paper title search application/json
paper/{paper_id} Details about a paper text/html
paper/{paper_id}/authors Details about a paper's authors application/json
paper/{paper_id}/citations Details about a paper's citations text/html
paper/{paper_id}/references Details about a paper's references text/html
snippet/search Text snippet search text/html