Semantic Scholar Recommendations API

openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Recommendations API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Get Semantic Scholar's recommended papers given other papers as input.
    All methods will return up to LIMIT recommendations if they are available.
servers:
- url: https://api.semanticscholar.org/recommendations/v1
paths:
  /papers/:
    post:
      summary: Get recommended papers for lists of positive and negative example papers
      operationId: post_papers
      tags:
      - Paper Recommendations
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Paper%20Input'
      responses:
        '404':
          description: Input papers not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
        '400':
          description: Bad query parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
        '200':
          description: List of recommendations with default or requested fields
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Paper%20Recommendations'
  /papers/forpaper/{paper_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get recommended papers for a single positive example paper
      operationId: get_papers_for_paper
      tags:
      - Paper Recommendations
      responses:
        '404':
          description: Input papers not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404'
        '400':
          description: Bad query parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400'
        '200':
          description: List of recommendations with default or requested fields
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Paper%20Recommendations'
components:
  schemas:
    Error404:
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: "Depending on the case, error message may be any of these:\n\
            <ul>\n    <li><code>\"Paper/Author/Object not found\"</code></li>\n  \
            \  <li><code>\"Paper/Author/Object with id ### not found\"</code></li>\n\
            </ul>"
          example: Requested object not found
      type: object
    Error400:
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: "Depending on the case, error message may be any of these:\n\
            <ul>\n    <li><code>\"Unrecognized or unsupported fields: [bad1, bad2,\
            \ etc...]\"</code></li>\n    <li><code>\"Unacceptable query params: [badK1=badV1,\
            \ badK2=badV2, etc...}]\"</code></li>\n    <li><code>\"Response would\
            \ exceed maximum size....\"</code></li>\n        <ul><li>This error will\
            \ occur when the response exceeds 10 MB. Suggestions to either break the\
            \ request into smaller batches, or make use of the limit and offset features\
            \ will be presented.</li></ul>\n    <li>A custom message string</li></ul>"
          example: 'Unrecognized or unsupported fields: [author.creditCardNumber,
            garbage]'
      type: object
    Paper Recommendations:
      properties:
        recommendedPapers:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/BasePaper'
      type: object
    BasePaper:
      properties:
        paperId:
          type: string
          description: Semantic Scholar’s primary unique identifier for a paper.
          example: 5c5751d45e298cea054f32b392c12c61027d2fe7
        corpusId:
          type: integer
          description: Semantic Scholar’s secondary unique identifier for a paper.
          example: 215416146
        externalIds:
          type: object
          description: 'An object that contains the paper’s unique identifiers in
            external sources. The external sources are limited to: ArXiv, MAG, ACL,
            PubMed, Medline, PubMedCentral, DBLP, and DOI.'
          example:
            MAG: '3015453090'
            DBLP: conf/acl/LoWNKW20
            ACL: 2020.acl-main.447
            DOI: 10.18653/V1/2020.ACL-MAIN.447
            CorpusId: 215416146
        url:
          type: string
          description: URL of the paper on the Semantic Scholar website.
          example: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5c5751d45e298cea054f32b392c12c61027d2fe7
        title:
          type: string
          description: Title of the paper.
          example: Construction of the Literature Graph in Semantic Scholar
        abstract:
          type: string
          description: The paper's abstract. Note that due to legal reasons, this
            may be missing even if we display an abstract on the website.
          example: We describe a deployed scalable system for organizing published
            scientific literature into a heterogeneous graph to facilitate algorithmic
            manipulation and discovery.
        venue:
          type: string
          description: The name of the paper’s publication venue.
          example: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
        publicationVenue:
          type: object
          description: 'An object that contains the following information about the
            journal or conference in which this paper was published: id (the venue’s
            unique ID), name (the venue’s name), type (the type of venue), alternate_names
            (an array of alternate names for the venue), and url (the venue’s website).'
          example:
            id: 1e33b3be-b2ab-46e9-96e8-d4eb4bad6e44
            name: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
            type: conference
            alternate_names:
            - Annu Meet Assoc Comput Linguistics
            - Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
            - ACL
            - Meet Assoc Comput Linguistics
            url: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/acl/
        year:
          type: integer
          description: The year the paper was published.
          example: 1997
        referenceCount:
          type: integer
          description: The total number of papers this paper references.
          example: 59
        citationCount:
          type: integer
          description: The total number of papers that references this paper.
          example: 453
        influentialCitationCount:
          type: integer
          description: 'A subset of the citation count, where the cited publication
            has a significant impact on the citing publication. Determined by Semantic
            Scholar’s algorithm: https://www.semanticscholar.org/faq#influential-citations.'
          example: 90
        isOpenAccess:
          type: boolean
          description: 'Whether the paper is open access. More information here: https://www.openaccess.nl/en/what-is-open-access.'
          example: true
        openAccessPdf:
          type: object
          description: 'An object that contains the following parameters: url (a link
            to the paper’s PDF), status (the type of open access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Colour_naming_system),
            the paper''s license, and a legal disclaimer.'
          example:
            url: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.447.pdf
            status: HYBRID
            license: CCBY
            disclaimer: 'Notice: This snippet is extracted from the open access paper
              or abstract available at https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.447,
              which is subject to the license by the author or copyright owner provided
              with this content. Please go to the source to verify the license and
              copyright information for your use.'
        fieldsOfStudy:
          type: array
          description: 'A list of the paper’s high-level academic categories from
            external sources. The possible fields are: Computer Science, Medicine,
            Chemistry, Biology, Materials Science, Physics, Geology, Psychology, Art,
            History, Geography, Sociology, Business, Political Science, Economics,
            Philosophy, Mathematics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Agricultural
            and Food Sciences, Education, Law, and Linguistics.'
          example:
          - Computer Science
          items:
            type: string
        s2FieldsOfStudy:
          type: array
          description: 'An array of objects. Each object contains the following parameters:
            category (a field of study. The possible fields are the same as in fieldsOfStudy),
            and source (specifies whether the category was classified by Semantic
            Scholar or by an external source. More information on how Semantic Scholar
            classifies papers https://medium.com/ai2-blog/announcing-s2fos-an-open-source-academic-field-of-study-classifier-9d2f641949e5)'
          example:
          - category: Computer Science
            source: external
          - category: Computer Science
            source: s2-fos-model
          - category: Mathematics
            source: s2-fos-model
          items:
            type: object
        publicationTypes:
          type: array
          description: The type of this publication.
          example:
          - Journal Article
          - Review
          items:
            type: string
        publicationDate:
          type: string
          description: The date when this paper was published, in YYYY-MM-DD format.
          example: '2024-04-29'
        journal:
          type: object
          description: 'An object that contains the following parameters, if available:
            name (the journal name), volume (the journal’s volume number), and pages
            (the page number range)'
          example:
            volume: '40'
            pages: 116 - 135
            name: IETE Technical Review
        citationStyles:
          type: object
          description: The BibTex bibliographical citation of the paper.
          example:
            bibtex: "@['JournalArticle', 'Conference']{Ammar2018ConstructionOT,\n\
              \ author = {Waleed Ammar and Dirk Groeneveld and Chandra Bhagavatula\
              \ and Iz Beltagy and Miles Crawford and Doug Downey and Jason Dunkelberger\
              \ and Ahmed Elgohary and Sergey Feldman and Vu A. Ha and Rodney Michael\
              \ Kinney and Sebastian Kohlmeier and Kyle Lo and Tyler C. Murray and\
              \ Hsu-Han Ooi and Matthew E. Peters and Joanna L. Power and Sam Skjonsberg\
              \ and Lucy Lu Wang and Christopher Wilhelm and Zheng Yuan and Madeleine\
              \ van Zuylen and Oren Etzioni},\n booktitle = {NAACL},\n pages = {84-91},\n\
              \ title = {Construction of the Literature Graph in Semantic Scholar},\n\
              \ year = {2018}\n}\n"
        authors:
          type: array
          title: Author Info
          description: Details about the paper's authors
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthorInfo'
      type: object
    AuthorInfo:
      properties:
        authorId:
          type: string
          title: This field will be provided if no fields are specified
          description: Semantic Scholar’s unique ID for the author.
          example: '1741101'
        name:
          type: string
          title: This field will be provided if no fields are specified
          description: Author’s name.
          example: Oren Etzioni
      type: object
    Paper Input:
      properties:
        positivePaperIds:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            example: 649def34f8be52c8b66281af98ae884c09aef38b
        negativePaperIds:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            example: ArXiv:1805.02262
      type: object
  securitySchemes: {}