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Find Research Papers MCP

An MCP server that provides unified search capabilities across 250M+ scholarly papers on arXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, CrossRef, and Semantic Scholar. It allows AI agents to retrieve paper metadata, abstracts, open-access PDF links, bibliographies, and citation graphs, while also verifying paper accessibility and retraction status.

Package and access

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Find Research Papers MCP logo, by surendranbCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by surendranb
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  • Popularity 7 GitHub stars

What you can do with it

  • Search for scientific papers across multiple scholarly indexes
  • Retrieve paper metadata, abstracts, and open-access PDF links
  • Fetch complete bibliographies and citing papers for a given DOI
  • Verify paper accessibility and check retraction databases

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.4.9MIT
mcp-registry: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp@0.4.9Source repository
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v0.4.9
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Packages and installation

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find-research-papers-mcp 0.4.9

pypi
find-research-papers-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.4.9",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "find-research-papers-mcp",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Semantic Scholar API key. Without it, the shared rate pool may 429 (source is skipped, never a crash)."
    }
  ]
}

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  • · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
  • · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "find-research-papers-mcp==0.4.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "find-research-papers-mcp==0.4.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "find-research-papers-mcp==0.4.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "find-research-papers-mcp==0.4.9"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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