# crossref-academic-mcp-server

> MCP Server for scientific papers, citations, and academic research — Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/crossref-academic-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- publisher: AiAgentKarl
- homepage: https://github.com/AiAgentKarl/crossref-academic-mcp-server
- repository: https://github.com/AiAgentKarl/crossref-academic-mcp-server
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: academic, citations, crossref, doi, mcp, openalex, papers, research, science, semantic-scholar
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:crossref-academic-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

# Crossref Academic MCP Server

MCP Server that gives AI agents access to scientific papers, citations, and academic research data. Queries **Crossref**, **OpenAlex**, and **Semantic Scholar** — three major open academic APIs covering 150M+ research works.

No API keys required. All data sources are free and open.

## Tools

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `search_papers` | Search for scientific papers across Crossref + OpenAlex simultaneously |
| `get_paper_details` | Get full metadata for a paper via DOI (bibliographic data + abstract + impact metrics) |
| `get_citations` | Find papers that cite a given paper (via Semantic Scholar) |
| `get_author_profile` | Look up an author's profile — publications, h-index, affiliations, research topics |
| `search_topics` | Find the most-cited recent papers in a topic area (trending research since 2023) |

## Installation

### With pip (recommended)

```bash
pip install crossref-academic-mcp-server
```

### From source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/AiAgentKarl/crossref-academic-mcp-server.git
cd crossref-academic-mcp-server
pip install -e .
```

## Configuration

Add to your MCP client config (e.g. Claude Desktop `claude_desktop_config.json`):

### Using pip install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossref-academic": {
      "command": "crossref-server"
    }
  }
}
```

### Using uvx (no install needed)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossref-academic": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["crossref-academic-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Example Usage

**Search for papers:**
> "Find recent papers about transformer architectures in NLP"

**Look up a specific paper:**
> "Get details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2"

**Explore citations:**
> "What papers cite the original attention paper?"

**Author lookup:**
> "Show me Yoshua Bengio's publication profile"

**Trending research:**
> "What are the most-cited papers about quantum computing from the last two years?"

## Data Sources

- **Crossr…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/crossref-academic-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-09T13:20:48.308Z)

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