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Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API boundary

Official API overview of service roles, shared anonymous limits and introductory key limits. This documentation-only review does not validate endpoint parameters, paging, scientific claims or reuse rights.

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Evidence-backed facts

  1. The Academic Graph service provides data about authors, papers, citations and venues, including SPECTER2 embeddings. informative
  2. Most endpoints allow unauthenticated access under a shared 1000-requests-per-second limit across all anonymous users, with possible additional throttling during heavy use. Some endpoints require an API key. informative
  3. The documented introductory rate for an API key is 1 RPS on all endpoints. Keys are private; the overview recommends including a key with each request. informative
  4. Recommendations supplies papers similar to a given paper, while Datasets supplies download links for Academic Graph datasets; these are separate services from Academic Graph. informative