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PubMed Search MCP

A Domain-Driven Design based MCP server that serves as an intelligent research assistant for AI agents, providing task-oriented literature search and analysis capabilities across PubMed, Europe PMC, CORE, and NCBI databases. It supports 41 tools for unified search, full text access, citation analysis, and OA figure extraction, with multi-agent service mode for per-tenant sessions and fair-share limits.

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PubMed Search MCP logo, by u9401066Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by u9401066
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What you can do with it

  • Search biomedical literature across multiple sources
  • Extract full text and OA figures from articles
  • Analyze citations and perform citation snowballing
  • Deploy multi-agent service with per-tenant sessions

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.8.0
mcp-registry: io.github.u9401066/pubmed-search-mcp@0.8.0Source repositoryProject website
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pubmed-search-mcp 0.8.0

pypiuvx
pubmed-search-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.8.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "pubmed-search-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "NCBI_EMAIL",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Contact email sent to NCBI E-utilities; defaults to git user.email"
    },
    {
      "name": "NCBI_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional NCBI API key that raises the E-utilities limit from 3 to 10 requests per second"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pubmed-search-mcp==0.8.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_EMAIL": "<YOUR_NCBI_EMAIL>",
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NCBI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pubmed-search-mcp==0.8.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_EMAIL": "<YOUR_NCBI_EMAIL>",
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NCBI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "pubmed-search-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pubmed-search-mcp==0.8.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_EMAIL": "<YOUR_NCBI_EMAIL>",
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NCBI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pubmed-search-mcp==0.8.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_EMAIL": "<YOUR_NCBI_EMAIL>",
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NCBI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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