Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI)
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Connect Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI) to PostHog to sync your data into the PostHog data warehouse for analysis and modeling.
Request an API key from the Semantic Scholar API page. Enter a specific query to select papers. Citations and references make additional requests for each matching paper. Each sync refreshes all results. Links without a related paper ID are excluded.
Configuration
| Option | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
API key | password | Yes |
Paper search query | text | Yes |
Linking Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI) to PostHog
- Go to the Data pipeline page in PostHog
- Click New source and select Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI)
- Fill in the required configuration fields
- Click Next, select the tables you want to sync, and then press Import
Supported tables
| Table | Description | Sync method | Incremental field | Primary key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
papers | Academic papers that match the configured search query. | Full refresh | — | — |
citations | Papers that cite papers in the configured search results. Unresolved paper links are excluded. | Full refresh | — | — |
references | Papers cited by papers in the configured search results. Unresolved paper links are excluded. | Full refresh | — | — |