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OpenAlex

@mrfentmenMCP server · External

Use this MCP server to OpenAlex scholarly works, authors, institutions, and citations. Tools...

Academic papersv1.0.0TypeScript
Freeno charge per call
How to install

Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.

What it does

  1. Reads
  2. Writes
  3. High impact

At most: only reads or looks up information.

What it costs

Free

Odel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.

Runs locally over stdio

This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).

npm@mrfentmen/openalex-mcpv1.0.0

Run

npx -y @mrfentmen/openalex-mcp

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openalex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/openalex-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

OpenAlex MCP

A research metadata server for scholarly works and authors using the public OpenAlex API.

Tools

  • search_works
  • get_work
  • search_authors
  • get_author

Results include DOI, publication year, citations, open access links, venues, authors, and topics.

bash
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js

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