semantic-scholar

To find published papers on a specific research topic, search the Semantic Scholar corpus using keywords and apply filters for minimum citation counts, publication year ranges, and sorting options.

Yes, you can look up a specific journal paper using its DOI. The tool directly fetches exact papers by DOI or Semantic Scholar ID to retrieve concise summaries, venue metadata, and citation analytics.

Yes, Semantic Scholar search distinguishes between journal articles and conference papers. You can filter results by publication type to ensure you only retrieve venue metadata for journals or conferences as needed.

Literature search tools handle arXiv preprint duplicates by flagging results that also have an arXiv preprint via externalIds.ArXiv. This de-duplication awareness occurs without re-fetching data from arXiv directly.

To access the Semantic Scholar API for paper discovery, you need a resolver fetcher script. This script processes your configurable filters for fields of study, publication types, and result limits to query the corpus.

A limitation of using Semantic Scholar for research workflow is that it focuses on published venue papers and metadata rather than fetching full-text PDFs. It is best used for citation analytics and discovery rather than document retrieval.