Academic papers MCP servers

A server here finds, reads or cites scholarly papers and research literature.

Not here: writing papers.

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  1. Studydiff @nickjlamb/studydiffExplain why two scientific papers disagree, every claim grounded in a verbatim source quote.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.2 GitHub stars.
  2. PDF Card MCP @velyan/pdf-card-mcpLocal-first MCP server + CLI that turns PDFs into source-linked, card-based HTML readers.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  3. doiget @sotashimozono/doigetOA-first paper fetcher: DOIs/arXiv IDs to local PDFs + metadata via Open Access APIs.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from a package registry.2 GitHub stars.
  4. Biolit @rachadele/biolitLLM-assisted biomedical literature screening and extraction for PubMed, GEO, and preprints.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  5. Scholar MCP @pvliesdonk/scholar-mcpFastMCP server for scholarly papers, patents, books and standards with docling PDF conversion3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  6. Agentic Research @theaisingularity/agentic-researchLocal research agent that verifies its own answers. Runs on Gemma 3 4B + Ollama, $0/query.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  7. Zotero Library @raulsimpetru/zotero-library-mcpAdd papers and books to Zotero by DOI, arXiv ID, or ISBN and manage your library4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  8. Thoth @ahmedeid1/thothRead-only MCP over an agentic SLR workspace with per-claim citation verification5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.2 GitHub stars.
  9. Hormonaly Clinical Intelligence @hormonaly-ai/hormonaly24 tools for evidence-graded clinical queries, hormones, peptides, longevity & drug interactions.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; it needs your API key.2 GitHub stars.
  10. Frédérick Madore — Academic Record @fmadore/frederickmadore-websiteSearch and cite Frédérick Madore's publications, talks, research projects, DH work and CV.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  11. AMIRA — Africa Multiple Research Data @am-digital-research-environment/amira-mcp-serverRead-only access to AMIRA, the Africa Multiple research-data platform on Omeka S.2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.1 GitHub stars.
  12. Scopus Plus MCP @michalhron/scopus-plus-mcpScopus and more: search, full text, citation networks, journal quality, bibliometrics.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  13. Academic Research Kernel @xngg1021/academic-research-kernelDeterministic research state, evidence validation and statistical recomputation.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  14. Amass @amass/amassLinked life-science search: 43M+ papers, 1.2M+ trials, drugs, genes, FDA/EMA approvals, patents.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.1 GitHub stars.
  15. CiteNexus @akougkas/cite-nexus-mcpSearch scholarly sources, verify references, and export citations with traceable evidence.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  16. ResearchZosho @wyrdsekai/researchzoshoDeep research assistant that checks its citations against the sources and keeps what it found.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1 GitHub stars.
  17. Na Openapi @rubatoyd/na-openapi-mcpNational Assembly Library of Korea catalog search (books, theses, articles, bills)4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  18. Noether Physics @ranshiv/noether-physicsPhysics assistant: checked equations, live simulations, claims verified against arXiv papers3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  19. Aurora Agent @murariambati/aurora-agentFIBER decision-context compiler with honest omission accounting: 259 evidence-bearing MCP tools.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  20. Research Scan @synectic/research-scanResearch Scan finds and verifies the 5–10 recent papers that matter most for a research question.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  21. Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP @helena-bioinformatics/folkloreBioinformatics MCP for genomic variant interpretation, gene-disease evidence and literature.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.1 GitHub stars.
  22. CiteVahti @heidihelena/citevahtiChecks whether each cited source supports the claim it backs. Blinded human-first, local-first.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  23. Academic Research @themineworks/academic-research-mcpScholarly search: OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, OpenCitations and PubMed in one endpoint.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; it needs your API key.1 GitHub stars.
  24. Vahtian @heidihelena/vahtianFreeze a corpus, check it for drift, keep a hash-chained audit ledger. Local-first, stdlib-only.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.