- DocsAgent — Zotero, Obsidian & Apple Notes MCP Server @docsagent/docsagentInstant, private access to your knowledge base: Zotero, Obsidian, Apple Notes (macOS).5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.625 GitHub stars.
- Google Surf @harimxchoi/google-surf-mcpWeb, academic and code search with graph RAG, data lineage, ontology and cross-project schema links.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.291 GitHub stars.
- Zotero MCP @kujenga/zotero-mcpSearch your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.162 GitHub stars.
- pubmed-mcp-server @cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-serverSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.158 GitHub stars.
- Bibverify @hylouis233/bibverifyVerify and repair BibTeX references with DOI-first MCP tools.2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.99 GitHub stars.
- Obsidian Vault MCP @luffysolution-svg/obsidian-vault-mcpLocal Zotero, MinerU, Obsidian literature workflow with transactional Analysis notes.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.93 GitHub stars.
- Academia @smithery/ilyagusev-academia-mcpSearch arXiv and ACL Anthology, retrieve citations and references, and browse web sources to accel…5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; it needs your API key.93 GitHub stars.
- OmniSeek @battam1111/omniseekYour agent seeks what search can't find. A self-hosted perception MCP server.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.92 GitHub stars.
- Patsnap Patent & Literature Search @patsnap/patent-literature-search-mcpSearch 200M+ patents and 216M+ scientific papers using natural language and structured filters.8% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from a package registry.82 GitHub stars.
- OneCite @hzacode/oneciteGenerate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs in BibTeX, APA, MLA formats.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.67 GitHub stars.
- Paper Distill MCP @eclipse-cj/paper-distill-mcpAcademic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.67 GitHub stars.
- Web Researcher MCP @zoharbabin/web-researcher-mcpYour AI research assistant that cites real sources and stays honest5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from Docker.66 GitHub stars.
- Research Hub @wenyuchiou/research-hubResearch workspace for Zotero + Obsidian + NotebookLM. Search, ingest, sync, verify briefs.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.64 GitHub stars.
- Zoteus @oscardvs/zoteusZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.55 GitHub stars.
- EndNote @gokmengokhan/endnote-mcpSearch, cite, and read PDFs from your EndNote library in Claude Desktop4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.52 GitHub stars.
- Scopus @qwe4559999/scopus-mcpA Model Context Protocol server for the Elsevier Scopus API7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.45 GitHub stars.
- OpenEvidence @bakhtiersizhaev/openevidence-mcpUnofficial MCP server connecting OpenEvidence to AI agents via authenticated browser sessions11% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.43 GitHub stars.
- paper-preflight @amos689/paper-preflightChecks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.35 GitHub stars.
- AIRAS @airas-org/airasAutomated AI research toolkit: hypothesis generation, experiments, and paper writing6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.35 GitHub stars.
- prismAId MCP @open-and-sustainable/prismaid-mcpMCP server for prismAId AI-assisted systematic reviews and protocol conformance checking.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from Docker.31 GitHub stars.
- CLIO Arxiv @iowarp/arxiv-mcpSearch arXiv by topic, author, title or date, read paper details, and export BibTeX or PDFs.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.28 GitHub stars.
Academic papers MCP servers
A server here finds, reads or cites scholarly papers and research literature.
Not here: writing papers.
210 remote172 localTagged by Odel's AI, which can make mistakes
Most popular in Academic papers
By GitHub stars, at most two per publisher- Number 1: Zotero MCP@54yyyu/zotero-mcpSearch, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.5,278 GitHub stars.
- Number 2: arXiv@blazickjp/arxiv-mcp-serverSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.3,202 GitHub stars.
- Number 3: ToolUniverse@mims-harvard/tooluniverse2,700+ scientific tools for AI scientists: life science, research, literature, and more.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1,718 GitHub stars.
