This server provides academic research and publishing tools from Science AI Journal, accessible inside MCP-enabled AI assistants (e.g., Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline).
Pre-Check Paper: Free, instant submission readiness check returning predicted publication tier (Tier 1–3 probabilities), detected research field, and confidence band — powered by a local 33,000-paper BM25 library with no LLM cost.
Check Duplicate Publication: Cross-references a paper's title/abstract against CrossRef, arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, Unpaywall, and a 900k-paper library to detect duplicates or salami-slicing. Returns a status (likely_published, uncertain, or not_found) with a confidence score. Free.
Recommend Journals: Ranked journal recommendations from a ~1,200-venue index, including letter grade, match percentage, tier, publisher, open-access status, predatory-journal flag, and example similar papers. Free.
Find Research Gaps: Discovers research gaps and surfaces the most-cited and most-recent papers around a query, with LLM-derived cross-paper synthesis. Uses credits; rate-limited to 10 requests/hour.
AI Review Paper (HAKEM): Runs a specialist AI peer-review agent (methodology, language, figures, plagiarism, or literature) on a manuscript, returning a structured editorial decision with score (1–10), verdict, strengths, concerns, and author questions. Uses credits.
Start Article Writer Pipeline: Enqueues an Article Writer job for an existing WriterSession to auto-generate or refine paper sections (introduction, methodology, results, discussion, references, abstract, or a full chain). Returns a job ID immediately. Uses credits.
Get Article Writer Pipeline Status: Polls the status of a running Article Writer pipeline job until it reaches a terminal state (done, failed, or aborted).
Model Context Protocol server for Science AI Journal tools. Use Pre-Check, AI Review, Research Gaps, Journal Recommender, Duplicate Publication Checker, and the Article Writer from inside Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, or any MCP-enabled client — without leaving your assistant.
Full docs and screenshots: https://scienceaijournal.com/developers/mcp
Generate an API key at https://scienceaijournal.com/settings?section=api-keys (free account required). Copy the saij_… token — you only see it once.
Add this block to your Claude Desktop config file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"science-ai-journal": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "science-ai-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"SCIENCE_AI_API_KEY": "saij_…paste your key…"
}
}
}
}Config file locations:
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Restart Claude Desktop. The science-ai-journal server appears in the 🔌 tool list.
The same config works in Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json), Cline (via the VS Code extension panel), and Continue (anywhere that supports an mcpServers object).
Related MCP server: Scholar Feed MCP Server
Tool | What it does | Cost |
| Tier 1-5 acceptance probability from title + abstract (local FTS5, no LLM) | Free |
| Cross-reference against CrossRef + arXiv + medRxiv + bioRxiv + Unpaywall + a 900k-paper library | Free |
| Ranked target journals from a 1,214-venue index, with predatory-journal flags | Free |
| Synthesised gaps + most-cited + most-recent papers around your query | Credits |
| Single-agent AI peer-review pass on a prepared prompt | Credits |
| Drive the Article Writer pipeline from outside the wizard | Credits |
Env var | Default | Purpose |
| required | Your |
|
| Override for self-hosted or staging environments |
Tools don't appear after editing config: fully quit the host app (not just close the window) and reopen.
401 unauthorized when calling a tool: the key was wrong, revoked, or expired. Mint a fresh one at Settings → API Keys.
429 rate limit on find_research_gaps: you hit the 10-per-hour IP quota. Wait an hour.
npx can't resolve the package: ensure Node ≥ 20 and that your npm registry isn't set to a private mirror without this package yet (npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/).
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Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.
Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.
Bounded tools for rendering, extraction, RAG, enrichment, local discovery and review analysis.
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