semanticscholar

Academic literature search, citation management, PDF retrieval, and literature review synthesis

Use when the user needs academic paper retrieval — searching scientific literature by author/year/journal, finding paper chunks for RAG-style citations, or expanding original text around a known paper offset. Provides three Sciverse tools (search_papers, semantic_search, read_content) via the sciverse-mcp-server MCP server.

Systematic literature searching and review toolkit for Claude Code. Search PubMed, screen papers, extract data, traverse citations, and synthesize findings from scientific literature.

Search academic papers via OpenAlex — find papers by keyword, look up details by DOI, with pagination and sorting