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Semantic Scholar Academic Paper Search
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Semantic Scholar Academic Paper Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.x402node.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Searches Semantic Scholar for academic papers and returns title, authors, year, venue, citation count, abstract snippet, and a link for each result.
Price / call$0.006
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How this service works
Search Semantic Scholar academic papers and return title, authors, year, venue, citation count, abstract snippet and link. semantic scholar search, academic paper search, citation count lookup, scholarly articles, research papers
Output
Returns a list of academic papers from Semantic Scholar, each with the paper title, author names, publication year, venue/journal, citation count, an abstract snippet, and a direct link to the paper on Semantic Scholar.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Search Semantic Scholar for academic papers about 'attention mechanisms in transformers' and show me the titles, authors, citation counts, and abstracts.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.x402node.dev/citation/semantic-scholarWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need structured metadata about academic papers — especially citation counts, venues, and author lists — sourced from Semantic Scholar's large open corpus. Prefer this over general web search when the user specifically needs scholarly literature, citation data, or research paper discovery.
Side effects
- No results found for obscure or misspelled query terms
- Semantic Scholar API rate limits or downtime causing request failure
- Very broad queries returning loosely relevant results
- Query returns older papers if recency filter is not applied
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocking the request
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
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| inputrequired | object |
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