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Semantic Scholar Scraper - Papers, Authors, Citations

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Search and fetch academic papers, authors, citations, and references via the Semantic Scholar Graph API.

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Semantic Scholar Scraper

Search and fetch academic papers, authors, citations and references via the Semantic Scholar Graph API. No key required (free key recommended for higher throughput).

For literature reviews, citation networks, author impact analysis, research dashboards.

Modes

Mode	What
`paper_search`	Keyword search across papers
`paper_by_ids`	Lookup by DOI / arXiv / S2 paperId
`author_search`	Author search by name
`author_by_ids`	Author profiles by S2 authorId
`paper_citations`	Papers citing a given paper
`paper_references`	References of a given paper

Input

Field	Type	Description
`mode`	String (required)	One of the above.
`query`	String	Search keyword.
`ids`	Array	IDs (paper or author depending on mode).
`paperId`	String	For citations/references modes.
`maxItems`	Integer	Default 25, max 1000.
`apiKey`	String	Free key from semanticscholar.org/product/api (raises throughput).

Output

Paper:

{
  "paperId": "204e3073870fae3d05bcbc2f6a8e263d9b72e776",
  "externalIds": { "DOI":"10.18653/v1/n19-1423", "ArXiv":"1810.04805" },
  "title": "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding",
  "year": 2019, "venue": "NAACL",
  "citationCount": 75000, "referenceCount": 40, "influentialCitationCount": 10000,
  "fieldsOfStudy": ["Computer Science"],
  "openAccessPdfUrl": "https://aclanthology.org/N19-1423.pdf",
  "authors": [{ "authorId":"...", "name":"Jacob Devlin" }],
  "url": "https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/..."
}

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