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 —