Scholar MCP

Scholar MCP is an open-source server that aggregates academic search sources into a unified interface for research agents. It enables agents to find papers from natural-language questions, follow citations and related work, and open primary text. It features a persistent SQLite library for FTS5 search, PDF attachments, and JSONL snapshots, along with connectors for Obsidian, Zotero, and Notion.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by Liyux3

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What you can do with it

Search for academic papers using natural language queries
Traverse citation graphs to find related work and references
Read paper text and extract tables directly
Manage a local library of saved papers and notes

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.8.5

mcp-registry: io.github.Liyux3/scholar-mcp@0.8.5 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Nov 1, 2026, 6:06 AM UTC

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scholar-mcp 0.8.5

pypiuvx

scholar-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "0.8.5",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "scholar-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "runtimeArguments": [
    {
      "name": "--find-links",
      "type": "named",
      "value": "https://github.com/Liyux3/scholar-mcp/releases/download/v0.8.5/wheel-index.html"
    },
    {
      "name": "--python",
      "type": "named",
      "value": "3.12"
    },
    {
      "name": "--with",
      "type": "named",
      "value": "scholar-mcp[rerank]==0.8.5"
    }
  ],
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR"
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS"
    },
    {
      "name": "S2_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "OPENALEX_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "CORE_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "SCOPUS_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL",
      "description": "Alibaba workspace API host or /api/v1 base URL."
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL",
      "description": "Alibaba or custom reranker model name."
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL",
      "description": "Full custom rerank endpoint; overrides Alibaba routing."
    },
    {
      "name": "SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "EXA_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZOTERO_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID"
    },
    {
      "name": "NOTION_API_KEY"
    },
    {
      "name": "NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.8.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS>",
        "S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCOPUS_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY>",
        "EXA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EXA_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID>",
        "NOTION_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NOTION_API_KEY>",
        "NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID": "<YOUR_NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.8.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS>",
        "S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCOPUS_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY>",
        "EXA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EXA_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID>",
        "NOTION_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NOTION_API_KEY>",
        "NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID": "<YOUR_NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "scholar-mcp-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.8.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS>",
        "S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCOPUS_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY>",
        "EXA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EXA_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID>",
        "NOTION_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NOTION_API_KEY>",
        "NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID": "<YOUR_NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "scholar-mcp==0.8.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS>",
        "S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>",
        "OPENALEX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENALEX_API_KEY>",
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_CORE_API_KEY>",
        "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCOPUS_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_API_KEY>",
        "DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY>",
        "EXA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_EXA_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_API_KEY>",
        "ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID": "<YOUR_ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID>",
        "NOTION_API_KEY": "<YOUR_NOTION_API_KEY>",
        "NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID": "<YOUR_NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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