Semanticscholar MCP integration
Finds papers by title, topic, or text snippet, traces citations and references, and profiles authors with their publication metrics.
20actions available
Three actions you can hand over today
Every action runs live through MCP. Nothing to build, nothing to maintain.
Search papers by relevance
Lyro searches the Semantic Scholar database for academic papers ranked by relevance to a query. The customer finds peer-reviewed sources without wading through irrelevant results.
Search for authors by name
Lyro searches Semantic Scholar for academic authors and their profiles. The team identifies experts and cites their publications to support research claims.
Get paper recommendations
Lyro generates paper recommendations based on positive and negative example papers. The customer discovers related research tailored to their specific interests.
How businesses use Semanticscholar + Lyro
Each card is one request a support team gets, and the Semanticscholar actions Lyro runs to close it.
Find the paper behind a vague description
Lyro searches by topic when the question is thematic, matches the closest title when only a fragment is remembered, and falls back to searching the body text of papers.
Search Papers By RelevancePaper Title SearchText Snippet SearchTrace where a finding came from and where it went
Lyro opens the paper record, lists the works citing it to gauge its impact, and reads its bibliography to reconstruct the scholarly context it was written in.
Details About A PaperDetails About A Paper's CitationsDetails About A Paper's ReferencesCheck who a researcher actually is
Lyro resolves a plain-text name to an author record, reads their affiliations, paper count, citation count, h-index, and ORCID, and lists what they have published.
Search For Authors By NameDetails About An AuthorDetails About An Author's PapersBuild a reading list around a known good paper
Lyro requests recommendations from positive and negative example papers, then pulls the details for the whole resulting set in a single batched call.
Get Paper RecommendationsGet Details For Multiple Papers At OnceSearch Bulk Papers
How it works
Get started in 3 steps
Connect once, then just ask. There is no workflow builder to learn and nothing to maintain — Lyro reads the Semanticscholar actions it has and picks the ones a request needs.
Connect Semanticscholar
Authorize the Semanticscholar account your team already uses — one consent screen, no API keys, no mapping tables. Lyro can only do what you granted that account, and you can disconnect it at any time.
Tell your agent what you need
Describe the job the way you would hand it to a teammate. Lyro maps it to the Semanticscholar actions that close it and chains as many as the request needs.
Watch it work
The agent runs the actions inside the conversation the customer is already in, so nobody copies data between tabs and your team can take over at any point.
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Semanticscholar · Lyro
What can you do in Semanticscholar without me setting anything up?
These, right away:
- Get dataset download links
- Details about an author
- Details about an author s papers
Great, let's start with the first one.
FAQ
Everything else about Semanticscholar
Setup, permissions, and the limits of what Lyro can do inside Semanticscholar.
Text snippet search matches a natural-language query against paper titles, abstracts, and body text, returning excerpts of roughly 500 words ranked by relevance. That gives Lyro a passage it can quote and attribute rather than a title whose contents it would have to assume.
Every action available in Semanticscholar
All 20 actions your agent can call on Semanticscholar, straight from the live MCP connection.
Details about an author
Retrieve detailed information about an author from Semantic Scholar, including name, affiliations, publication statistics (paperCount, citationCount, h-index), external IDs (ORCID, DBLP), and optionally papers.
Details about an author s papers
Retrieves a list of papers authored or co-authored by a specific researcher identified by their unique Semantic Scholar author ID.
Details about a paper
Examples: <ul> <li><code>https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b</code></li> <ul> <li>Returns a paper with its paperId and title.
Details about a paper s authors
Retrieves the list of authors for a specific paper identified by its unique paper_id in the Semantic Scholar database.
Details about a paper s citations
Retrieves a list of citations for a specific academic paper using its unique Semantic Scholar paper ID.
Details about a paper s references
Retrieves the list of references cited by a specific paper in the Semantic Scholar database.
Get dataset download links
Get download links for a specific dataset within a release.
Get dataset diffs
Get download links for incremental diffs between dataset releases.
Get details for multiple authors at once
Retrieves detailed information for multiple authors from Semantic Scholar in a single API call.
Get details for multiple papers at once
Retrieve detailed information for multiple academic papers in a single API call using the Semantic Scholar paper batch endpoint.
Get paper recommendations
Get paper recommendations based on positive and negative example papers.
Get recommendations for paper
Get recommended papers for a single positive example paper.
Get dataset release information
Retrieve metadata for a specific Semantic Scholar dataset release.
List available dataset releases
List all available dataset releases from Semantic Scholar.
Paper title search
Behaves similarly to <code>/paper/search</code>, but is intended for retrieval of a single paper based on closest title match to given query.
Search bulk papers
Perform bulk search for academic papers.
Search for authors by name
Search for academic authors in the Semantic Scholar database by name.
Search papers by relevance
Search for academic papers by relevance in the Semantic Scholar database.
Suggest paper query completions
Get autocomplete suggestions for paper queries.
Text snippet search
Search for text snippets (~500 words) within academic papers that match your natural language query.
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Ready to connect Semanticscholar?
Authorize the account and your agent has all 20 actions from the first conversation.