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An AI teammate for Semantic Scholar.

Connect Semantic Scholar and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 14 Semantic Scholar actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Semantic Scholar
  • What changed in Semantic Scholar this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from Semantic Scholar into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in Semantic Scholar drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from Semantic Scholar.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Semantic Scholar

14 Semantic Scholar actions, picked for what you ask.

About Semantic Scholar: Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature

Reads

14 in all · always allowed
  • Paper bulk search
    Behaves similarly to <code>/paper/search</code>, but is intended for bulk retrieval of basic paper…
  • Paper title search
    Behaves similarly to <code>/paper/search</code>, but is intended for retrieval of a single paper…
  • Text snippet search
    Return the text snippets that most closely match the query.
  • Details about a paper
    Examples: <ul>…
  • Paper relevance search
    The searchpapers endpoint allows users to search for academic papers within the Semantic Scholar…
  • Details about an author
    Examples: <ul> <li><code>https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/author/1741101</code></li> <ul>…
  • Search for authors by name
    The authorsearch endpoint allows users to search for authors within the Semantic Scholar database.
  • Details about a paper s authors
    Retrieves the list of authors for a specific paper identified by its unique paper id in the…
  • Suggest paper query completions
    To support interactive query-completion, return minimal information about papers matching a partial…
  • Details about an author s papers
    Retrieves a list of papers authored by a specific researcher identified by their unique Semantic…
  • Details about a paper s citations
    Retrieves a list of citations for a specific academic paper using its unique Semantic Scholar paper…
  • Details about a paper s references
    Retrieves the list of references cited by a specific paper in the Semantic Scholar database.
  • Get details for multiple papers at once
    The semanticscholar paper batch endpoint allows users to retrieve data for multiple academic papers…
  • Get details for multiple authors at once
    Retrieves detailed information for multiple authors from Semantic Scholar in a single api call.

Changes

0 in all · off when Semantic Scholar is read-only

None in this app.

Showing 14 of 14. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Semantic Scholar

    Open Connections, find Semantic Scholar and paste an API key from your Semantic Scholar account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Semantic Scholar with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Semantic Scholar job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Semantic Scholar, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Semantic Scholar and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Semantic Scholar?

Yes. Semantic Scholar is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Semantic Scholar?

Open Connections, find Semantic Scholar and paste an API key from your Semantic Scholar account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Semantic Scholar?

14 actions: 14 that read from Semantic Scholar and 0 that change things in it, for example paper bulk search, paper title search, text snippet search. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Semantic Scholar?

Yes. In Connections, set Semantic Scholar to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Semantic Scholar from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Semantic Scholar jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Semantic Scholar data safe?

Your Semantic Scholar login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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