scholar-search-mcp

This MCP server integrates Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs to provide academic paper search and metadata retrieval for AI assistants. It supports features like keyword search with parallel merging, paper details, citations, references, author info, batch lookup, recommendations, and arXiv LaTeX source download. The tool can be configured for different AI assistants like Claude and Cursor.

scholar-search-mcp sits in the Dev Tooling category, so it is usually better judged by workflow fit, deployment style, and team needs than by isolated features alone. Based on the available metadata, it leans most clearly toward Search papers with keyword search and parallel merge from Semantic Scholar and arXiv with optional filters. A representative use case is AI assistants can search for academic papers to answer research questions. The listed license is MIT. GitHub stars are currently 247. Relevant tags include academic, academic-writing.