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:
Base URL:
Auth: none
Endpoints: 16
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 22:15:13.565863
Key:
semanticscholar.org:semantic-scholar-apiBase 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
SDKs:
- semanticscholar (python)
- PyS2 (python)
- Scholarpy (python)
- semscholar (r)
- semanticscholar (r)
Topics
Endpoints (16)
| Path | Summary | Response | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| author/search | Search for authors by name | application/json |
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| author/{author_id} | Details about an author | application/json |
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| author/{author_id}/papers | Details about an author's papers | text/html |
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| graph/v1/author/search | Search authors | application/json |
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| graph/v1/author/{authorId} | Get author details | application/json |
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| graph/v1/paper/search | Search papers | text/html |
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| graph/v1/paper/{paperId} | Get paper details | text/html |
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| paper/autocomplete | Suggest paper query completions | application/json |
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| paper/search | Paper relevance search | text/html |
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| paper/search/bulk | Paper bulk search | text/html |
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| paper/search/match | Paper title search | application/json |
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| paper/{paper_id} | Details about a paper | text/html |
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| paper/{paper_id}/authors | Details about a paper's authors | application/json |
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| paper/{paper_id}/citations | Details about a paper's citations | text/html |
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| paper/{paper_id}/references | Details about a paper's references | text/html |
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| snippet/search | Text snippet search | text/html |
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