Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for Semantic Scholar
Search over 200 million research papers across every field with Semantic Scholar, from the Allen Institute for AI.
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Actions
What your agents can do in Semantic Scholar
Search over 200 million research papers across every field with Semantic Scholar, from the Allen Institute for AI: find papers and passages of their text, read a paper's abstract and one-sentence summary, follow its citations and references, get recommendations, and look up authors with their papers and citation counts. Papers can be named by DOI, arXiv ID, PubMed ID or Semantic Scholar ID.
Read 10
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search papers
Searches papers by relevance and returns up to limit with total and next (the offset of the next page).
Find a paper by its title
Returns the one paper whose title best matches the text, with a matchScore, its paperId, title, year, authors, externalIds and citationCount.
Get a paper
Returns one paper in full: title, abstract, one-sentence tldr, authors, year, publicationDate, venue and journal, citation and reference counts, fieldsOfStudy, publicationTypes, externalIds.
Get several papers
Returns up to 100 papers at once, in the order asked.
Get the papers that cite a paper
Lists papers that cite a paper, newest first, with next for the next page.
Get a paper's references
Lists the papers a paper cites (its bibliography), with next for the next page.
Recommend similar papers
Returns papers recommended from one paper (recommendedPapers), each with paperId, title, year, authors, venue, citationCount, url and tldr.
Search passages in papers
Searches the text of papers (titles, abstracts and body, about 500-word passages) and returns the best-matching passages first.
Search authors
Finds researchers by name and returns each with authorId, name, affiliations, paperCount, citationCount, hIndex, homepage and profile url.
Get an author's papers
Lists an author's papers by their Semantic Scholar author ID (from search_authors or a paper's authors), with next for the next page.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Semantic Scholar but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Semantic Scholar account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
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Ask about your Semantic Scholar data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search papers, find a paper by its title or get a paper in Semantic Scholar, then answers with what it found.
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Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Semantic Scholar and Slack: it can search papers in Semantic Scholar and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
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Run it as a workflow step
Add "Search papers" to a workflow, and it runs in Semantic Scholar the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
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- Exa3 actionsSearch the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
FAQ
Semantic Scholar and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Semantic Scholar?
Yes. The Semantic Scholar connector has 10 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Semantic Scholar?
Paste an API key from your Semantic Scholar account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Semantic Scholar without asking?
No. Every Semantic Scholar action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Semantic Scholar in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Semantic Scholar action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Semantic Scholar to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.