OpenAlex MCP Server

Name: OpenAlex MCP Server
Author: reetp14

@reetp14

代码仓库

关于 OpenAlex MCP Server

openalex-mcp is a mcp server which provide AI agents with tools to interact with OpenAlex.

基本信息

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许可证

MIT license

运行时

node

传输方式

stdio

发布者

reetp14

配置

使用下面的配置,将此服务器添加到你的 MCP 客户端。

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openalex-mcp-reetp14": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "test-simple.js"
      ]
    }
  }
}

工具

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概览

What is OpenAlex MCP Server?

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to the OpenAlex API – a fully open catalog of the global research system covering over 240 million scholarly works. It's for developers and researchers who want to search and retrieve scholarly works, authors, sources, institutions, concepts, publishers, and funders.

How to use OpenAlex MCP Server?

Install via npm install -g openalex-mcp and add the server to your MCP client configuration. Use tools such as search_works, search_authors, search_sources, search_institutions, search_concepts, search_publishers, search_funders, get_entity, autocomplete, and classify_text with parameters like search, filter, sort, page, cursor, group_by, select, sample, and mailto.

Key features of OpenAlex MCP Server

Search over 240 million scholarly works
Retrieve authors with ORCID integration
Access ~250K sources (journals, conferences, repositories)
Institutions with ROR matching
Hierarchical research concepts (levels 0-5)
Full OpenAlex query grammar for filtering and sorting

Use cases of OpenAlex MCP Server

Search for AI papers from 2023 and sort by citation count
Find authors affiliated with a specific institution
Get publication trends by year using grouping
Autocomplete journal names for user input
Classify research text to predict relevant concepts

FAQ from OpenAlex MCP Server

What is the OpenAlex API?

It is a fully open catalog of the global research system, free and open, created by OurResearch.

What are the rate limits?

Anonymous: 10 requests/second, 100,000/day. With mailto or Bearer token: 100 requests/second, 1,000,000/day.

How do I authenticate?

Optionally use a Bearer token via the OPENALEX_BEARER_TOKEN environment variable or provide a mailto parameter in requests.

Can I paginate deeply?

Yes, use the cursor parameter with * for the first call, then use the returned next_cursor. Standard pagination max 10,000 results; deep pagination allows more.