semanticscholar-mcp
MCP server that provides Semantic Scholar academic search capabilities, including paper search, detail query, citation analysis, author search, and intelligent recommendations.
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search_authors搜索学术作者
get_author获取作者详细信息
get_author_papers获取指定作者的论文列表
search_papers搜索学术论文，支持关键词搜索和过滤条件
get_paper获取论文详细信息，支持多种 ID 格式（Semantic Scholar ID、DOI、ArXiv ID、PMID 等）
get_paper_citations获取引用指定论文的文献列表（谁引用了这篇论文）
get_paper_references获取论文的参考文献列表（这篇论文引用了什么）
batch_get_papers批量获取多篇论文的详细信息（最多 500 篇）
get_recommendations基于指定论文获取推荐的相关论文
Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.
When Vitest UI server is listening, arbitrary file can be read and executed
Vitest allows Remote Code Execution when accessing a malicious website while Vitest API server is listening
Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default
SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY"": "your-api-key"Tool annotations
No tools have read-only/destructive annotations
Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.
All four hints declared on every tool
9/9 tools missing one or more hints — search_authors (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_author (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_author_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +6 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.
For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.
Tool test coverage
Only 0/9 tools referenced in tests (0%)
Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.
Production dependencies are patched
0 critical, 1 high severity in production deps — @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.0.0 (high)
Run npm audit fix, or upgrade the affected packages to a non-vulnerable version.
Dev dependencies
2 critical/high in dev-only deps (does not ship to users)
Upgrade dev dependencies when convenient.
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