Semantic Scholar

Item: Semantic Scholar
Rating: 68
Author: M8ven

Integrates with the Semantic Scholar API to enable querying academic papers, authors, and citations for research and analysis tasks.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— export ="your_api_key"

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commit: 71829347fbcfe15fb5604c49c7d4e9b2f19401c9

code hash: ee7dece7d7fbbc778e792db1c14a642945d8976a7140357c88be9d53f4c31566

verified: 7/26/2026, 8:48:29 AM

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