# Serper Google Scholar Search

> Serper Google Scholar Search is a paid API for AI agents from Serper at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Searches Google Scholar and returns academic papers with titles, authors, publication venues, years, and citation counts

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/serper/scholar?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Serper
- Docs: https://google.serper.dev
- Website: https://google.serper.dev
- Tags: google, serp, search, web
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/serper-google-scholar-search-59c0fce4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_4UYbP2l_qry75cXu01WAa

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability serper-google-scholar-search-59c0fce4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Google Scholar for academic papers on 'transformer neural networks in natural language processing' and give me the titles, authors, journals, years, and citation counts for the top results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured academic paper results from Google Scholar, including citation counts and author metadata — ideal for literature reviews, fact-checking with scholarly sources, or discovering influential research in a field. Prefer over general web search when peer-reviewed academic credibility and citation data are required.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results for highly niche or misspelled queries
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion returning error responses
- Ambiguous queries returning loosely related papers
- No citation data available for very recent or obscure papers
- Network timeout for slow upstream Google Scholar responses

## How this service works

Google Scholar search - returns academic papers with titles, authors, publication venues, years, citation counts, links, and snippets. Use as_ylo/as_yhi to filter by publication year range. Use for academic research, literature reviews, or citation analysis. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

Returns a list of academic papers matching the query, each including the paper title, author names, publication venue or journal, publication year, citation count, and typically a snippet or abstract excerpt.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/serper-google-scholar-search-59c0fce4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mpp.orthogonal.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mpp.orthogonal.com/llms.txt)