# Scholar Search MCP

An MCP server that combines Semantic Scholar and arXiv into one literature-search toolset, giving Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients parallel search, citation and author graphs, recommendations, and arXiv source downloads.

Scholar Search MCP gives an AI assistant a unified way to search academic literature. Its search tool runs Semantic Scholar and arXiv queries in parallel and deduplicates results by normalized title, and further tools retrieve paper details, citations, references, author profiles, and recommendations.

It works without any API key by default, since arXiv access needs none; an optional Semantic Scholar API key raises that source's rate limit. Beyond search, it supports batch retrieval of up to 500 papers at once and can download and extract arXiv LaTeX sources, with built-in caching and per-source enable and disable toggles.

It installs via pip and runs as a standard MCP server, with the same configuration used for Claude Desktop and Cursor.

Website: https://github.com/Silung/scholar-search-mcp