get_author

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declared in 0.1.0

Search for academic authors by name on Semantic Scholar. Returns up to 5 matches with affiliations, paper count, total citation count, h-index, and profile URL. Keyless.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "examples": [
    {
      "author_id": "2190855"
    }
  ],
  "required": [
    "name"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Author name to search for, e.g. \"Yoshua Bengio\"."
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceSemantic Scholar API
Allen Institute for AI · research
name mention0.85

Parent server

mcp-semanticscholar

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-semanticscholar

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