Start free
Spreadsheets & databases

Semantic Scholar

Let your agent look up papers, authors and citations for researchers during a call.

Connect Semantic Scholar and your agent can answer questions about academic papers and researchers while on the phone. It can find a paper by title, check who wrote it, list an author's publications, and pull a paper's citations or references. Callers get accurate, current answers from the scholarly record, and your team gets a clear summary of what was asked. Connect your Semantic Scholar account from your settings in the AgentCalls dashboard and the agent can use it on every call.

Start freeSee pricing

What your agent can do with Semantic Scholar

  • Look up a paper by title or ID and read back its authors and year
  • List the publications of a specific researcher
  • Pull the citations or references of a paper for a literature review
  • Retrieve details for several authors or papers in one request
  • Answer a caller's question about who wrote what, and when

Semantic Scholar exposes 20 actions. You choose which ones the agent may use and whether each runs during or after the call.

Example calls

Inbound question about a paper

  1. Caller

    Hi, I'm a PhD student at Leeds. Can you tell me who wrote the 2017 paper on attention-based transformers?

  2. Agent

    Sure. That paper is titled Attention Is All You Need, and it was written by a team of eight authors. Would you like the full author list sent to your email?

  3. Caller

    Yes please, send it to amara.osei@leeds.ac.uk.

  4. Agent

    Done. The list is on its way to amara.osei@leeds.ac.uk now.

Author publication lookup

  1. Caller

    Good morning, I'm preparing a reading list. How many papers has Dr. Elena Marsh published?

  2. Agent

    Dr. Elena Marsh has 64 papers listed in Semantic Scholar. Would you like the five most cited ones?

  3. Caller

    Yes, the top five would help.

  4. Agent

    Here they are. I can text the titles and years to this number so you have them in one place.

Citation check for a review

  1. Caller

    Hello, our team is writing a review on battery recycling. Could you check how many papers cite the 2019 Nature study on lithium recovery?

  2. Agent

    That study has 412 citations in Semantic Scholar. Do you want me to book a 30 minute call with our research desk on Thursday to go through the list?

  3. Caller

    Thursday at 2 would work.

  4. Agent

    Booked for Thursday at 2:00 pm. You will get a confirmation email shortly.

How to connect Semantic Scholar

  1. 1

    Create your agent

    Sign up to AgentCalls, pick an English or Arabic voice and write what the agent should know and do in plain language.

  2. 2

    Connect Semantic Scholar

    From Integrations in the dashboard, choose Semantic Scholar and enter the connection details from your Semantic Scholar account settings.

  3. 3

    Choose the actions

    In the agent editor, enable the Semantic Scholar actions the agent may use and set each to run during the call or afterwards. Then test it from your browser.

Related integrations

Google SheetsVerifiedSpreadsheets & databasesGoogle Sheets is a cloud-based spreadsheet tool enabling real-time collaboration, data analysis, and integration with…SupabaseSpreadsheets & databasesSupabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service providing a Postgres database, authentication, storage, and real-time…AirtableSpreadsheets & databasesAirtable merges spreadsheet functionality with database power, enabling teams to organize projects, track tasks, and…Code InterpreterSpreadsheets & databasesCodeInterpreter extends Python-based coding environments with integrated data analysis, enabling developers to run…SerpApiSpreadsheets & databasesSerpApi provides a real-time API for structured search engine results, allowing developers to scrape, parse, and…ExaSpreadsheets & databasesExa focuses on data extraction and search, helping teams gather, analyze, and visualize information from websites…

All Spreadsheets & databases integrations

Questions, answered.

Does the agent use Semantic Scholar during the call or after it?

Both. During a call, your agent can look up papers, authors and citations and read the answer back. It can also send results by text or email once the caller confirms.

What do I need to connect Semantic Scholar?

You need a Semantic Scholar account with its own credentials. Sign in to the AgentCalls dashboard, open Settings, choose Tools, and connect Semantic Scholar using your credentials from its settings page.

Which plan includes this integration?

Tool integrations are included from the Growth plan. You can upgrade from the billing page in your AgentCalls dashboard at any time.

Page drafted from the tool's public description and reviewed automatically for accuracy of claims

Put your agent to work with Semantic Scholar.

Connect in minutes, test from your browser, go live on a number in the US, UK or Gulf. Free to start, no card needed.

Start freeSee pricing