Academic Search MCP

Item: Academic Search MCP
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Enables searching academic literature via Semantic Scholar with relevance filters, batch metadata retrieval, and citation-graph recommendations.

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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.

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Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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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— The server reads from the environment, but it is optional:

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commit: e7e6c993c65da4755130876fa0214c549fe84e14

code hash: 5ecfe810c5bbbcafd964b57a3745455feba5ad3d0a44d912852633ef60aeae72

verified: 7/2/2026, 9:15:13 AM

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