Schema | OpenAlex MCP

OpenAlex MCP

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`OPENALEX_API_KEY`	Yes	Your OpenAlex API key. The server can start without it, but tools will return setup guidance.

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": false }
`prompts`	{ "listChanged": false }
`resources`	{ "subscribe": false, "listChanged": false }
`experimental`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
search_worksC	检索论文；主题默认只搜 title+abstract，venue 名称应先 resolve 成 S-id。
get_workA	取得单篇详情；支持 W-id、DOI、arXiv ID/URL 和标题，歧义标题不会静默取 top1。
get_citing_worksC	列出引用某篇论文的工作（前向雪球）。
get_referencesC	批量 hydrate 一篇论文的参考文献，默认按被引数排序。
search_authorsB	按姓名或 ORCID 查作者；两者必须恰有一个非空。
resolve_entityA	把 source/topic/institution 名称解析成 OpenAlex ID。期刊优先输入 ISSN；会议应按“会议名+年份”（如 INFOCOM 2026）逐年解析，并同时核对规范名与年份，歧义时不要自动写入配置。USENIX 系会议通常无 OpenAlex source 记录。盘点会议时先 resolve_entity，再把当年 S-id 传给 search_works(venue_ids=[...])。
harvest_candidatesC	一次并发执行 A1/A2/T/B/C/D/E 召回、全量排除、去重和 RRF 保底融合。
get_api_quotaA	读取官方 /rate-limit 今日预算，并同时报告本 MCP 会话累计成本。
download_work_pdfA	从 OpenAlex 内容库安全下载 PDF/GROBID XML，仅能写入配置的论文根目录。

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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