Scholarly data APIs

Semantic Scholar API

Academic Graph API for paper, author, and citation data in research products.

maturewidely usedConfidence: high

Primary use case

Programmatic access to scholarly metadata and graphs

Best for

Builders creating research apps or literature tools

Not ideal for

End users who only need a chat UI for papers

You build tools that need paper and author graph data

You only consume research through Elicit or Consensus UIs