Lets your assistant reason through a problem in numbered steps, revising and branching as it goes.
Openalex Research MCP
oksure7 · MCP server
Connects an AI assistant to the OpenAlex scholarly database for literature reviews and research landscaping. Its 31 tools can find the most cited papers on a topic, show how a field has grown by year, compare research areas, map activity by country, find foundational papers, look up authors and their collaborators, and return full details for a work by ID or DOI. Presets cover journal lists, conference lists and groups of universities.
Written by ooruby from the README of openalex-research-mcp 0.5.0.
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Why it's useful
Literature searches and citation questions run against OpenAlex records, so your assistant can survey a field from real publication data.
What you could do with it
- Ask for the most influential papers on a topic since a chosen year, with a minimum citation count.
- Compare publication volumes for several research areas, such as deep learning and federated learning, over a range of years.
- Find the main co-authors of a researcher, or the leading experts on a topic sorted by h-index.
Written from its documentation: what it says it can do, not what our checks found.
Maintenance
Not measuredNo release date is on record for this package yet. The nightly publisher check records one as it reaches each npm package, about once every ten nights.
Release activity only: it says nothing about quality or safety, and a finished small package can be fine without releases. How it is measured
What this does not cover
- Everything. Treat it as you would software from anywhere else.
Receipt history: every signed receipt for every version of this listing, and what changed between them.
In its maker's words
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
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How far this has been checked
Static scanned
- What it establishes
- Its published package, or for a hosted server its source repository at a recorded commit, was read file by file, without running it, by every check in our current scan.
- What it does not
- How it behaves when it runs, or anything the scan does not read yet: several rubric checks, the repository's history, and compiled code in folders named dist or build. For a hosted server, that the endpoint runs the code that was read. The ooruby Index sets out exactly what was read.
- Exactly what was read
- Version 0.5.0, the file with digest sha512-UdiyO8zZXdGGMtTxOfgFJUXvId6HNmr9GupticKwMxypp/IzZTBrsm2H2w9BqHKDv87vF5+YrtJGMKqQ4yImfw==, as the registry publishes it. A published version cannot be replaced, so this names the same bytes for anyone who checks.
- Authentication
- Runs locally. No hosted endpoint is listed for this package. You run it on your own machine, so there is no endpoint of ours to authenticate against.
Adding it
Paste this into your client's MCP configuration.
{
"mcpServers": {
"openalex-research-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"openalex-research-mcp@0.5.0"
]
}
}
}Or run it directly.
npx -y openalex-research-mcp@0.5.0Pinned to 0.5.0, which is the version the findings above were found in. Drop the version to take whatever is newest, and the report on this page stops describing what you installed.
Where this came from
- Registry
- npm
- Package
- openalex-research-mcp
- Version read
- 0.5.0
- Resolved
- 2026-10-10
Built from source, attested
npm publishes a signed statement that this exact package was built from the repository below, at this commit. It is verifiable without taking our word for it.
- Repository
- github.com/oksure/openalex-research-mcp
- Commit
- c161821a9a3f
- Built by
- github.com/actions/runner/github-hosted
- Registry publish attestation
- signed by npm · 2026-10-10
- Checked
- 2026-10-10
The badge, if this is your listing
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[](https://ooruby.com/market/openalex-research-mcp)About this listing
- Kind
- MCP server
- Category
- Research
- Pricing
- Free
- Sandbox
- No
- Hosted
- No
- Updated
- 2026-10-05
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