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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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 — Freeconst 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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