Semantic Scholar API
AI-powered scholarly graph API for paper metadata, citations, authors, and embeddings.
Semantic Scholar API is listed in Government & Science.
Auth API key Pricing Freemium URL https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api Docs https://api.semanticscholar.org/api-docs/
Key metrics
1k req/sec Rate limit Free shared pool ~1,000 requests/second across all unauthenticated users (heavily throttled in practice); a free API key grants a dedicated 1 request/second.
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Requires an API key (free to obtain) before use.
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