SemanticScholar Get Paper

Overview

Get detailed metadata for a specific paper from Semantic Scholar by paper ID, DOI, PubMed ID, or other identifier. Returns title, abstract, AI-generated TLDR summary, authors, citation count, reference count, journal, publication types, fields of study, open access PDF link, and external IDs (DOI, PubMed, ArXiv, etc.). Identifier formats: Semantic Scholar paper ID (40-char hex), DOI: prefix (e.g., 'DOI:10.1126/science.1225829'), PMID: prefix (e.g., 'PMID:22745249'), ArXiv: prefix (e.g., 'ArXiv:2106.01345'), or CorpusId: prefix. This complements SemanticScholar_search_papers by providing full paper details.

Status

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Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

95ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "fields": {
      "default": "paperId,title,abstract,tldr,year,citationCount,referenceCount,openAccessPdf,journal,publicationTypes,externalIds,authors,publicationDate,fieldsOfStudy",
      "description": "Comma-separated list of fields to return. Available: paperId,title,abstract,year,citationCount,referenceCount,openAccessPdf,journal,publicationTypes,externalIds,authors,tldr,publicationDate,venue,fieldsOfStudy. Default returns core fields.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "paper_id": {
      "description": "Paper identifier. Supports multiple formats: Semantic Scholar ID (e.g., '68d962effe5520777791bd6ec8ffa4b963ba4f38'), DOI (e.g., 'DOI:10.1126/science.1225829'), PubMed (e.g., 'PMID:22745249'), ArXiv (e.g., 'ArXiv:2106.01345'), or CorpusId (e.g., 'CorpusId:14088426').",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "paper_id"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "paper_id": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_SemanticScholar_get_paper

Tool name

SemanticScholar_get_paper

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

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