---
title: "Semantic Scholar integration for LuumenAI"
url: "https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/semantic-scholar/"
entity: SoftwareIntegration
category: "AI & automation"
audience: "SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, IT operations"
---

# Semantic Scholar integration for LuumenAI

Search papers, authors, citations, and references from the terminal

## What LuumenAI can do with Semantic Scholar

LuumenAI connects to Semantic Scholar with an API token and exposes 20 tools (20 read-only). Every tool is read-only, so it can answer questions from Semantic Scholar but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 20 tools (20 read-only)
- Deployment: scoped as part of your Pilot, Platform, or Managed rollout
- Category: AI & automation

## About Semantic Scholar with LuumenAI

Ask about a paper and get the answer in your terminal: who wrote it, what it cites, who has cited it since. SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER and SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER_S_CITATIONS read straight through, and batch lookups cover long lists at once. Connect with an API key. Semantic Scholar is read-only here, so nothing you run changes anything.

## Example tools

Read-only (20 in total):

- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_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…
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_AN_AUTHOR_S_PAPERS` — Retrieves a list of papers authored or co-authored by a specific researcher identified by their unique Semantic Scholar author ID.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER` — Examples: <ul> <li><code>https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b</code></li> <ul> <li>Returns a paper with its paperId and title.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER_S_AUTHORS` — Retrieves the list of authors for a specific paper identified by its unique paper_id in the Semantic Scholar database.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER_S_CITATIONS` — Retrieves a list of citations for a specific academic paper using its unique Semantic Scholar paper ID.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_DETAILS_ABOUT_A_PAPER_S_REFERENCES` — Retrieves the list of references cited by a specific paper in the Semantic Scholar database.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_GET_DATASET` — Get download links for a specific dataset within a release.
- `SEMANTICSCHOLAR_GET_DATASET_DIFFS` — Get download links for incremental diffs between dataset releases.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to Semantic Scholar?

Authorize once with API token. Luumen lists the scopes each action needs before you approve the connection, and credentials never appear in the chat.

### Can LuumenAI change things in Semantic Scholar on its own?

No. Every one of the 20 tools is read-only, so LuumenAI can answer questions from Semantic Scholar but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to Semantic Scholar is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/semantic-scholar/