What is elsevier-mcp?

A plugin that connects Claude to Elsevier services, including Scopus and ScienceDirect. It can search literature and retrieve available information about articles, journals, authors, citations, and impact measurements.

Use it to find papers, retrieve abstracts or full text when available, and inspect journal, author, affiliation, citation, and altmetric details.

It lets Claude perform several academic research lookups through Elsevier’s services.

elsevier-mcp — Plugin for Claude Code by chackchang/elsevier

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chackchang/elsevier_mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 1 MCP server cost 42 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

elsevier-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to elsevier-mcp — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 36 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json",
  "name": "elsevier-mcp",
  "displayName": "Elsevier Research Tools",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Give Claude access to Elsevier APIs (Scopus, ScienceDirect, and more). Search scholarly literature, retrieve abstracts and full-text articles, look up journals, authors, citations, and altmetrics.",
  "author": {
    "name": "kemalabut",
    "url": "https://github.com/kemalabuteliyte"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/kemalabuteliyte/elsevier-mcp",
  "repository": "https://github.com/kemalabuteliyte/elsevier-mcp",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "elsevier",
    "scopus",
    "sciencedirect",
    "academic",
    "research",
    "papers",
    "citations",
    "literature"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "elsevier": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dist/bundle.cjs"],
      "env": {
        "ELSEVIER_API_KEY": "${ELSEVIER_API_KEY}",
        "ELSEVIER_INST_TOKEN": "${ELSEVIER_INST_TOKEN}",
        "ELSEVIER_ENABLE_ALL_TOOLS": "${ELSEVIER_ENABLE_ALL_TOOLS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 42 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 1.2 KB

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 36 lines scan A d67d1ba91b2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

elsevier-mcp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository chackchang/elsevier_mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to elsevier-mcp, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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