{
  "id": "semantic-scholar-api",
  "name": "Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API",
  "category": "apis",
  "summary": "API over Semantic Scholar's academic graph of papers, authors and citations; an API key unlocks some endpoints and higher rate limits.",
  "url": "https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api",
  "docs": "https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/",
  "tags": [
    "research",
    "papers",
    "citations",
    "scholarly"
  ],
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "auth": "api-key",
    "notes": "Unauthenticated access is heavily rate-limited (HTTP 429)."
  },
  "related": [
    "openalex-api"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api",
    "https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Allen Institute for AI",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "stack",
      "id": "research-agent",
      "title": "Research agent stack",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/stacks/research-agent/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/stacks/research-agent.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/semantic-scholar-api/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/semantic-scholar-api.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/semantic-scholar-api.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/apis/semantic-scholar-api.json"
  }
}