dsh-lit-search-mcp
Enables academic literature search through Semantic Scholar, contributing deduplicated results with citation counts and support for sorting by citations, date, or relevance.
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dsh-lit-search-mcp
MCP server for academic literature search, citation formatting (GB/T 7714 / APA) and BibTeX generation — Crossref + OpenAlex + Semantic Scholar, merged and deduplicated, no API key needed.
Thin MCP wrapper over dsh-lit-search (also available as a DeepSeek Harness plugin, a CLI, and a SKILL.md).
Tools
Tool | What it does |
| Keyword search merged across Crossref / OpenAlex / Semantic Scholar, deduplicated by DOI, with citation counts. Options: |
| Format a citation for a DOI: |
| Batch BibTeX entries for a list of DOIs (reports which DOIs failed). |
| Related works for a DOI via OpenAlex. |
Related MCP server: BibTeX MCP Server
Install
Claude Code:
claude mcp add lit-search -- npx -y dsh-lit-search-mcpAny MCP host (Cursor, ChatGPT, ...):
{ "mcpServers": { "lit-search": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "dsh-lit-search-mcp"] } } }Requires Node.js ≥ 20. Listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.Flan246/dsh-lit-search.
License
MIT
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