Semantic Scholar MCP Server

Item: Semantic Scholar MCP Server
Rating: 73
Author: M8ven

Enables searching academic papers, exploring citation graphs, and looking up authors from Semantic Scholar's database of 200M+ papers.

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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

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: S2_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.

🔐 secretS2_API_KEY— export =your_key_here

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 0238c264073993697366b4c3c062298bc61b7d35

code hash: 5aaa32b552ed320c5d50ada0d28a9267f00f63b84d5942e538bf78d896ca7442

verified: 7/21/2026, 9:39:27 AM

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