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Semantic Scholar Research Normalizer

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Search 200M+ scientific papers via Semantic Scholar API with normalized metadata — authors, citations, venues, and open access links. Free, no API key.

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Semantic Scholar Research Normalizer

Search the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph and receive clean, deduplicated paper records from a corpus of more than 200 million scholarly works. This Actor turns inconsistent scholarly metadata into analysis-ready records with author identity deduplication, DOI normalisation, citation metrics, fields of study and open-access discovery.

Free API. No API key required.

Features

Topic, title, author and keyword search
DOI and Semantic Scholar paper identifiers retained
Deduplicates authors within each paper and papers by DOI or paper ID
Normalizes titles, abstracts, venues and author names
Includes citation, reference and influential-citation counts
Identifies open-access PDF availability
Human-readable OUTPUT table plus machine-readable STATS and full RESULTS

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`searchQuery`	string	Topic, title, author or keyword search
`maxResults`	integer	1–100 papers, default 20
`yearStart`	integer	Optional earliest publication year
`yearEnd`	integer	Optional latest publication year

Example input

{"searchQuery":"large language models","maxResults":20,"yearStart":2020,"yearEnd":2026}

Example output

{"paperId":"...","title":"Attention Is All You Need","year":2017,"authors":[{"authorId":"...","name":"Ashish Vaswani","nameNormalized":"ashish vaswani"}],"citationCount":...,"doi":"10.48550/...","isOpenAccess":true,"fieldsOfStudy":["Computer Science"]}

Use cases

Systematic literature reviews and evidence discovery
Research trend and citation analysis
Prior-art and competitive intelligence
Academic recommendation and knowledge graphs
Open-access paper monitoring for libraries and research teams

Data source attribution

Data is sourced from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph, provided by the Allen Institute for AI. Please review and follow the source API's current rate limits and terms.

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