academic search mcp servers

14 tagged academic search, measured the same way as everything else here.

wp-a/nature-academic-search

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Academic Paper Search with verified multi-source literature, citation graphs, and trial workflows. Runs locally from the nature-academic-search Python package.

155 3d ago A tokens not measured original MIT

scopus-mcp

03

qwe4559999/scopus-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

A Model Context Protocol server for the Elsevier Scopus API. Runs locally from the scopus-mcp Python package. Needs 1 environment variable to run.

38 3mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

google-researcher

04

zoharbabin/google-researcher-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server providing Google Search, web scraping, and multi-source research tools for AI assistants. Runs locally from the google-researcher-mcp npm package. Needs 2 environment variables to run.

35 2mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT archived

websearch-mcpserver

05

daidaiJ/websearch-mcpserver

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "websearch-mcpserver" as configured in daidaiJ/websearch-mcpserver. Launched with https://github.com/daidaiJ/websearch-mcpserver/releases/download/v3.1.1/websearc.

20 2d ago A tokens not measured original MIT

openalex-mcp-server

06

cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog — 270M+ publications. Runs locally from the @cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server npm package. Needs 4 environment variables to run.

14 10d ago A tokens not measured original Apache-2.0

paper-pilot

07

aytzey/paper-pilot

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "paper-pilot" as configured in aytzey/paper-pilot. Runs locally from the paper-pilot Python package.

12 1mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

mcp

08

SpaceFrontiers/mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Citable retrieval across papers, books, patents, Wikipedia, and live social sources. Remote server at mcp.spacefrontiers.org.

11 1mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

crossref-mcp-server

09

cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Resolve DOIs, search 155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. Runs locally from the @cyanheads/crossref-mcp-server npm package. Needs 4 environment variables to run.

3 8d ago A tokens not measured

scholar-mcp

10

Liyux3/scholar-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor

Scholar MCP: multi-source academic search, citation traversal, and deep research. Runs locally from the scholar-mcp Python package.

1 3mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

paper-search

12

its-antony/paper-search

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor

Scientific paper search and ranking across OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and Unpaywall. Runs locally from the paper-search Python package.

0 3mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

nb-paper-search

13

X-T-E-R/nb-paper-search

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "nb-paper-search" as configured in X-T-E-R/nb-paper-search. Runs locally from the nb-paper-search npm package.

0 9d ago A tokens not measured original MIT

cnki-search

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Biogod2020/cnki-search

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "cnki-search" as configured in Biogod2020/cnki-search. Runs locally from the cnki-search Python package.

0 16d ago A tokens not measured original MIT