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    • F
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      Enables searching PubMed's biomedical literature database and retrieving article metadata, abstracts, and full content through the E-utilities API. Supports advanced queries, batch operations, and multiple output formats with automatic rate limiting.
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    • A
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      Enables searching and retrieving scientific articles from PubMed using NCBI E-utilities API with features like rate limiting and caching.
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    • A
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      Exposes NCBI PubMed as MCP tools for searching literature, fetching abstracts, exploring citation graphs, and finding author publications without requiring an API key.
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    TDQS

    B3.4/5.0

    Scored across 10 tools

    Disambiguation2/5

    pubmed_search and search_pubmed are functionally near-identical (both run NCBI esearch and return PMIDs/query translation), and pubmed_fetch, fetch_abstracts, and pubmed_batch_fetch all wrap efetch with only minor output differences. check_access vs search_with_access also overlap, leaving several boundaries unclear despite good descriptions.

    Naming Consistency2/5

    Names mix a pubmed_ prefix (pubmed_search, pubmed_fetch, pubmed_get, pubmed_batch_fetch, pubmed_database_info) with bare verb_noun forms (fetch_abstracts, check_access, download_pdfs) and an unconventional reversed form (search_pubmed). The search pair differing only by word order is especially confusing.

    Tool Count4/5

    Ten tools is a reasonable scope for a PubMed retrieval server, but several tools are redundant variants of the same underlying operation rather than distinct capabilities. The count itself is fine; the duplication is the issue.

    Completeness4/5

    The surface covers the core retrieval lifecycle well: search, single/multi/batch fetch, normalized or raw output, access classification, and PDF download. Minor gaps exist (no citation/related-article or export formats like RIS/BibTeX), which agents can work around.

    Maintenance

    ActivityMaintained
    ResponsivenessNo issues