mcp-pubmed
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCBI_EMAIL | No | Optionally set your email for NCBI's usage tracking. | |
| NCBI_API_KEY | No | Optional API key for higher rate limits. Without a key, requests are limited to 3 per second. With a key, the limit increases to 10 per second. |
Instructions
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.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_articlesA | Search PubMed for biomedical articles. Supports full PubMed query syntax including field tags ([Title], [Author], [MeSH]), boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and date ranges. |
| get_articleA | Get full metadata for a specific PubMed article by PMID, including title, abstract, authors, journal, publication date, DOI, and MeSH terms. |
| get_citationsA | Get articles that cite a given PubMed article (PMID). Useful for forward citation tracking. |
| get_relatedA | Get related articles for a given PubMed article (PMID), ranked by relevance using NCBI's algorithm. |
| search_meshC | Search the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary. Useful for finding standardized biomedical terms, tree numbers, and scope notes. |
| get_full_text_linksA | Get links to free full text versions of an article (e.g., PubMed Central). Returns PMC links and publisher free-access URLs. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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