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maintenanceEnables AI agents to search and read PubMed academic literature directly, without requiring an NCBI API key.
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pubmed-mcp-server
by cyanheads
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A4.1/5.0
Scored across 12 tools
Disambiguation4/5
Each tool targets a distinct capability: keyword search, metadata fetch, full-text fetch, citation formatting, related-article discovery, MeSH lookup, citation-based ID lookup, ID conversion, spell check, and citation metrics. The main soft spots are pubmed_search_articles vs pubmed_europepmc_search and pubmed_fetch_articles vs pubmed_europepmc_fetch, but the descriptions explicitly carve out the corpus differences (preprints/patents, records with no PMID) so an agent can choose correctly.
Naming Consistency4/5
Nearly everything follows the pubmed_verb_noun pattern (pubmed_search_articles, pubmed_fetch_articles, pubmed_fetch_fulltext, pubmed_lookup_mesh, pubmed_format_citations, pubmed_convert_ids). The two Europe PMC tools invert the order (pubmed_europepmc_fetch, pubmed_europepmc_search), placing the noun before the verb, which is a minor but real deviation.
Tool Count5/5
12 tools is squarely in the well-scoped range for a biomedical literature server, and each one maps to a distinct research workflow step (discover, retrieve, enrich, cite, convert). No filler tools and no obviously missing companion operation.
Completeness5/5
The surface covers the full literature lifecycle: search (PubMed and Europe PMC), metadata and full-text retrieval, citation formatting, related-work traversal, MeSH vocabulary, citation-based ID resolution, ID conversion, spell correction, and iCite metrics. Edge cases like non-PMID preprint/patent records are explicitly handled via the Europe PMC path.
Maintenance
ActivityActive
ResponsivenessUsually handled