Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API

API over Semantic Scholar's academic graph of papers, authors and citations; an API key unlocks some endpoints and higher rate limits.

Category: APIs
Website: https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api
Docs: https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/
Status: active
Maintainer: Allen Institute for AI
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

research
papers
citations
scholarly

Agent access

Auth: api-key
Notes: Unauthenticated access is heavily rate-limited (HTTP 429).

Related

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Guides & comparisons

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Sources

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Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)