Semantic Scholar

AI-powered academic search engine indexing 214M+ papers with citation graphs, author profiles, and paper recommendations. Best for literature reviews, citation analysis, and discovering influential papers across all scientific disciplines. Unlike arXiv (preprint access), Semantic Scholar spans all published literature and provides citation relationship data for understanding research impact. 7 endpoints available through Lava’s AI Gateway. See the Semantic Scholar API docs for full documentation.

This provider is managed — no additional setup required.

Endpoints

Search for papers or get paper details

GET https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=attention+mechanism — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query=attention+mechanism', { method: 'GET' });

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Fgraph%2Fv1%2Fpaper%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3Dattention%2Bmechanism" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

Batch lookup papers by ID (up to 500)

POST https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/batch — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/batch', { body: {"ids":["649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b"]} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Fgraph%2Fv1%2Fpaper%2Fbatch" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ids":["649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b"]}'

Search for authors or get author details

GET https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/author/search?query=yoshua+bengio — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/author/search?query=yoshua+bengio', { method: 'GET' });

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Fgraph%2Fv1%2Fauthor%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3Dyoshua%2Bbengio" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

Batch lookup authors by ID (up to 1000)

POST https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/author/batch — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/author/batch', { body: {"ids":["1741101"]} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Fgraph%2Fv1%2Fauthor%2Fbatch" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ids":["1741101"]}'

Full-text snippet search across papers

GET https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/snippet/search?query=transformer+architecture — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/snippet/search?query=transformer+architecture', { method: 'GET' });

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Fgraph%2Fv1%2Fsnippet%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3Dtransformer%2Barchitecture" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

Get papers similar to a given paper

GET https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1/papers/649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1/papers/649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b', { method: 'GET' });

curl "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Frecommendations%2Fv1%2Fpapers%2F649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY"

Get paper recommendations from positive/negative example sets

POST https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1/papers — Free

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1/papers', {
  body: {
"positivePaperIds": [
  "649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b"
]
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2Frecommendations%2Fv1%2Fpapers" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"positivePaperIds":["649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b"]}'

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Search for papers or get paper details

Batch lookup papers by ID (up to 500)

Search for authors or get author details

Batch lookup authors by ID (up to 1000)

Full-text snippet search across papers

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Get paper recommendations from positive/negative example sets

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​Search for papers or get paper details

​Batch lookup papers by ID (up to 500)

​Search for authors or get author details

​Batch lookup authors by ID (up to 1000)

​Full-text snippet search across papers

​Get papers similar to a given paper

​Get paper recommendations from positive/negative example sets

​Next Steps

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Endpoints

Search for papers or get paper details

Batch lookup papers by ID (up to 500)

Search for authors or get author details

Batch lookup authors by ID (up to 1000)

Full-text snippet search across papers

Get papers similar to a given paper

Get paper recommendations from positive/negative example sets

Next Steps