Crossref MCP

Crossref MCP Server provides tools to search and retrieve academic paper metadata, including DOIs, authors, citations, and journals via the Crossref REST API. It supports searching works by query or title, retrieving full metadata by DOI, and fetching recent works from a journal by ISSN.

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Package and access

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What you can do with it

Search academic papers, books, and datasets via Crossref
Get full metadata for a publication by DOI
Get the 5 most recent works from a journal by ISSN

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.1.1

mcp-registry: io.github.pipeworx-io/crossref@1.1.1 Source repository Project website

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

Packages and installation

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@pipeworx/mcp-crossref 1.1.1

npm

@pipeworx/mcp-crossref package definition

{
  "version": "1.1.1",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-crossref",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "PIPEWORX_API_KEY",
      "description": "Optional Pipeworx API key. Without it calls are anonymous and capped daily; a free key raises the cap."
    }
  ]
}

Tools

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossref-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-crossref@1.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossref-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-crossref@1.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "crossref-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-crossref@1.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossref-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-crossref@1.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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