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Scholar MCP — Academic Search Tools for AI Agents

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MCP server giving AI agents academic superpowers: search 250M+ papers, resolve DOIs, find researchers and get h-index profiles. Built on the keyless OpenAlex API. Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client via Streamable HTTP.

Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 tool calls

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Developer

RD.Galih Rakasiwi

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Tools

Tool	Description
`search_works`	Search papers by keyword, sorted by citations
`get_work_by_doi`	Resolve one paper by DOI
`search_authors`	Find researchers by name (with h-index)
`get_author_profile`	Full profile: h-index, citations, top works

Connect

Streamable HTTP transport, authenticated with your Apify token:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp": {
      "url": "https://galih_rakasiwi--scholar-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Paste this into Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json, or add the URL https://galih_rakasiwi--scholar-mcp.apify.actor/mcp in Cursor/Windsurf MCP settings with the same bearer header.

Example session

User: which paper about BERT has the most citations?
Agent (tool search_works): "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional
  Transformers…" — citedBy 85942, doi 10.18653/v1/N19-1423

Notes

Built on OpenAlex, the keyless official API for scholarly records (see RE.md for the proven recipe).
Pay per completed tool call; failed calls (upstream errors) are free.

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Local development

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m src.main

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