Semantic Scholar MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.
Search academic papers and read citations from Semantic Scholar. No key required.
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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add semantic-scholar-mcp -- npx -y semantic-scholar-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"semantic-scholar-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.semantic-scholar-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "semantic-scholar-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"semantic-scholar-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"semantic-scholar-mcp": {
"args": [
"-y",
"semantic-scholar-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
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