A systematic study on the effect of silver (Ag) doping in magnesium diboride (MgB 2 ) superconductor has been undertaken. A series of polycrystalline samples with composition Mg 1Àx Ag x B 2 (0 x 0.20) were synthesized by using the ''in situ'' solid state reaction method. All the samples were sintered at 850 8C for 2 h under the high purity argon flow. The room temperature X-ray diffraction (XRD), low temperature resistivity (r-T) measurements and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) were performed to explore the phase purity, superconducting transition temperature, and microstructural properties, respectively.The XRD patterns show that Ag doping leads to the formation of Mg-Ag phase. The relative intensity of Mg-Ag phase increases with increasing Ag content. The r-T measurement shows that superconducting transition temperature (T c ) decreases slightly with Ag doping. All the samples have T c between 38.5 K (x ¼ 0.00) and 37 K (x ¼ 0.20). The FE-SEM images have revealed hexagonal shaped grains with an average grain size between 0.20 and 0.50 mm.