Connect your AI agent to Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature
Set it up in Melso
- 1In Melso, open Settings → Agent Apps and hit Connect on Semantic Scholar.
- 2Finish the API_KEY sign-in in the window that opens. Melso stores the connection, not your credentials.
- 3Open your agent, go to its Agent Apps tab, and allow Semantic Scholar.
- 4Give the agent a task. It calls Semantic Scholar itself when the work needs it.
What Semantic Scholar gives your agent
The tools, permissions, and events Semantic Scholar exposes — the same ones your agent can use once the app is authorized.
What you sign in with
Semantic Scholar connects with API_KEY.
Permissions
Semantic Scholar does not break access down into granular permissions.
Tools Semantic Scholar exposes
Details about an author
Retrieve detailed information about an author from Semantic Scholar, including name, affiliations, publication statistics (paperCount, citationCount, h-index), external IDs (ORCID, DBLP), and optionally papers. By default returns authorId and name only. Use 'fields' parameter for additional data: name, url, affiliations, homepage, externalIds, paperCount, citationCount, hIndex, papers (supports nested fields like papers.title, papers.year). Limit: 10 MB per request.
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