Best Google Scholar MCP Servers
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across many publishing formats and disciplines.
Why this server?
Supports searching for academic papers through Google Scholar, integrated as one of the supported academic platforms
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceAn MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, and Sci-Hub, designed for seamless integration with large language models like Claude Desktop.5571,921 PyPI2,774MITWhy this server?
Enables academic publication and author search with Google Scholar's database, though only available for local use due to rate limiting.
AlicenseBqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that provides standardized access to biomedical knowledge bases and resources, enabling AI systems to retrieve verified information from sources like bioRxiv, EuropePMC, and various protein/gene databases.5230Apache 2.0Why this server?
Search academic papers with citation information.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceAn MCP server that gives local LLMs access to Google search, live feeds, YouTube transcriptions, OCR, and more — all without API keys, using headless Chromium and open-source models.238128MITWhy this server?
Enables searching for academic research articles through web scraping, providing access to titles, authors, abstracts, journals, citations, and publication information from Google Scholar's database
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceAn MCP server that provides comprehensive medical information by querying multiple authoritative medical APIs including FDA, WHO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and RxNorm.111156 npm114MITWhy this server?
Provides academic paper search via Google Scholar, returning publication, authors, and citation counts.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that exposes eight SearchApi.io search engines as discrete tools, returning trimmed structured results to save context.8MITWhy this server?
Allows searching and retrieving academic citation metadata from Google Scholar, including finding cluster IDs, generating BibTeX entries, and fetching paper metrics.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceEnables AI agents to access academic citations, fetch metadata, and generate BibTeX entries directly from Google Scholar via MCP tools.1141 PyPI1MITWhy this server?
Allows searching for academic literature via Google Scholar.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceEnables AI agents to perform comprehensive search across 27 search engines including web, academic, code, community, package managers, video, images, podcasts, and maps, with multi-modal support, caching, and security features.14MITWhy this server?
Allows for specialized academic research searching and citation retrieval through Google Scholar.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceWeb search (embedded SearXNG), content extraction, and library docs indexing with hybrid search. No API keys required.61,179 PyPI19Apache 2.0Why this server?
Enables comprehensive academic search across publishers with citation data, automatic filtering for peer-reviewed papers, and year range queries.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceEnables searching and downloading academic papers from 14 platforms including arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Springer, and Sci-Hub with unified data format and intelligent rate limiting.21494 npm186MIT