PubMed MCP
A community MCP server that wraps the NCBI E-utilities API to search biomedical literature, fetch abstracts, retrieve article metadata, find related articles and citations, access full text from PubMed Central, profile evidence landscapes, track publication trends, and check citation integrity.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
Checks and signals
Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.
- Popularity 1 GitHub star
What you can do with it
- Search biomedical literature and fetch abstracts
- Retrieve article metadata and full text from PubMed Central
- Find related articles and forward citations for a given PMID
- Check PubMed citations for retractions or errata
Source and maintenance
- Last repository push
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed 1.2.0
{
"version": "1.2.0",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed",
"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
Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"pubmed-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed@1.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"pubmed-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed@1.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"pubmed-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed@1.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"pubmed-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-pubmed@1.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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