Research MCP servers

4,481 tagged Research, measured the same way as everything else here.

Browse within: model-context-protocol 614pipeworx 374ai-tools 50llm-tools 28bun 27legaltech 24open-data 24arxiv 23api 21citations 21cyanheads 20bioinformatics 19fastmcp 18cloudflare-workers 15

perplexity-mcp

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Family-IT-Guy/perplexity-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Intelligent Perplexity research MCP server with model selection, multi-model synthesis, and research history. Runs locally from the @familyitguy/perplexity-mcp npm package.

not rated 15 6mo ago A tokens not measured original ISC archived

websearch-mcp-server

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Howe829/websearch-mcp-server

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server providing web search capabilities for LLMs. Runs locally from the websearch-mcp-server Python package.

not rated 15 1y ago A tokens not measured original MIT

kisti-mcp

243

ansua79/kisti-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

KISTI-MCP Server - MCP server for KISTI OpenAPI (ScienceON, NTIS, DataON). Runs locally from the kisti-mcp Python package.

not rated 15 2mo ago A tokens not measured

brave-search-mcp

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arben-adm/brave-mcp-search

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "brave-search-mcp" as configured in arben-adm/brave-mcp-search. Runs locally from the brave-search-mcp Python package.

not rated 15 1y ago A tokens not measured original MIT

zoty

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eric-tramel/zoty

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Lightweight Zotero MCP server for AI agent interaction. Runs locally from the zoty Python package.

not rated 15 3mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

hancengiz/youtube-transcript-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server for retrieving YouTube video transcripts for Claude Code. Runs locally from the @fabriqa.ai/youtube-transcript-mcp npm package.

not rated 15 9mo ago A tokens not measured

devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

CLI, MCP server, and Anthropic/OpenAI API-compatible interface for Perplexity AI. Runs locally from the perplexity-web-mcp-cli Python package.

not rated 15 4mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

aringadre76/mcp-for-research

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Consolidated MCP server for scholarly research across PubMed, ArXiv, Google Scholar, and JSTOR (5 powerful tools instead of 24). Runs locally from the scholarly-research-mcp npm package.

not rated 15 3mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

rednote-crawler

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yangsijie666/xiaohongshu-crawler

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server "rednote-crawler" as configured in yangsijie666/xiaohongshu-crawler. Runs locally from the rednote-crawler Python package.

not rated 15 +1 6mo ago A tokens not measured

infranode

250

street1983nk/infranode

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Keyless open data for 84 German cities: 12 lean read-only MCP tools covering 67 data types. Remote server at mcp.infranode.dev.

not rated 14 11d ago A tokens not measured original Apache-2.0

papersflow

251

papersflow-ai/papersflow-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Academic research MCP server for paper search, citation checks, graphs, and deep research. Remote server at doxa.papersflow.ai.

not rated 14 5mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

mailfathom

252

Krzysztof318/MailFathom

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Security-first, self-hosted email archive with search, cited answers, and sending for AI agents. Remote server at {mailfathom_host}.

not rated 14 yesterday A tokens not measured original AGPL-3.0

octen-mcp

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Octen-Team/octen-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

URL to LLM-ready markdown — plus per-page category, pagestructure, and query-driven highlights. Runs locally from the octen-mcp npm package. Needs 2 environment variables to run.

not rated 14 3d ago A tokens not measured original MIT

opengov-mcp-server

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srobbin/opengov-mcp-server

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

MCP server that enables a client, such as Claude Desktop, to access open government data through Socrata APIs. Runs locally from the opengov-mcp-server npm package.

not rated 14 1y ago A tokens not measured original MIT

reference-mcp

256

ndchikin/reference-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Get citation data from CiteAs and Google Scholar. Runs locally from the reference-mcp Python package.

not rated 14 1y ago A tokens not measured original MIT

ta-studio

257

HomenShum/NodeBenchAI

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

One of 2 in .mcp.json

TA Studio MCP server for Claude Code — AI-powered QA automation. Runs locally from the ta-studio-mcp npm package. Needs 2 environment variables to run.

not rated 14 yesterday A tokens not measured original MIT

smart-search-mcp

258

adminhuan/smart-search-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

A local search service that provides 14 smart-search tools and fetches real results from the web. MCP is a standard way for tools to be connected to coding agents.

not rated 14 11mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

mcp

259

scrapfly/scrapfly-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Scrape any website, extract structured data, and collect web content at scale with AI agents. Runs locally from the scrapfly-mcp npm package.

not rated 14 9d ago A tokens not measured

pubcrawl

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nickjlamb/pubcrawl

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials for AI assistants. Runs locally from the @pharmatools/pubcrawl npm package. Needs 1 environment variable to run.

not rated 14 4d ago A tokens not measured original MIT

dc-api

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nulib/dc-api-v2

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Agent integration with the Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections API. Runs locally from the @nulib/dc-api-mcp npm package.

not rated 14 8d ago A tokens not measured

context7

262

tae0y/python-project-template

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

One of 5 in .mcp.json

Gives the agent up-to-date documentation and code examples for libraries and frameworks, fetched on demand so answers are not stuck at the model's training cutoff. Runs locally from the @upstash/context7-mcp npm package.

not rated 14 28d ago A tokens not measured

tijori-finance

263

LaZZy0v0/tijori-finance-mcp

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

Indian equity research MCP — 5,000+ NSE/BSE stocks, financials, KPIs, and concall transcripts. Runs locally from the tijori-finance-mcp npm package.

not rated 13 1mo ago A tokens not measured original MIT

deepwiki

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ArtemisAI/Harness_Engineering

MCP server Claude CodeCodexCursor +2

One of 9 in .mcp.json

DeepWiki's hosted MCP server: AI-generated documentation of public GitHub repositories the agent can query. Remote server at mcp.deepwiki.com.

not rated 13 6mo ago A tokens not measured

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