MCP server for Semantic Scholar research workflows with stdio and Streamable HTTP transports.
Aira MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Aira directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for Semantic Scholar research workflows with stdio and Streamable HTTP transports.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI models with comprehensive access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API. This server enables intelligent literature search, paper analysis, and citation network exploration through a robust set of tools, resources, and prompts.
Once Aira is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Multi — depth citation network traversal for comprehensive impact analysisYou will need 2 environment variables: WILEY_TDM_CLIENT_TOKEN, SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Aira's toolset — Multi — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by GitHub Actions; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Multi | depth citation network traversal for comprehensive impact analysis |
{
"mcpServers": {
"aira-semanticscholar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "aira-semanticscholar"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| WILEY_TDM_CLIENT_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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