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.
An 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.
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57
2,967 PyPI
2,956
MIT
Why this server?
Enables academic publication and author search with Google Scholar's database, though only available for local use due to rate limiting.
An 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.
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31
Apache 2.0
Why this server?
Provides tools for searching academic literature on Google Scholar, supporting query operators, year ranges, cited-by lookups, and retrieval of citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver) along with BibTeX and EndNote export links.
Enables searching Google Scholar with Scholar operators, year ranges, cited-by and all-versions lookups, and retrieving citations in five styles with BibTeX and EndNote export links as structured JSON.
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61 npm
13
MIT
Why this server?
Allows for specialized academic research searching and citation retrieval through Google Scholar.
Web search (embedded SearXNG), content extraction, and library docs indexing with hybrid search. No API keys required.
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23
Apache 2.0
Why this server?
Allows searching and retrieving academic citation metadata from Google Scholar, including finding cluster IDs, generating BibTeX entries, and fetching paper metrics.
Enables 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.
14
MIT
Why this server?
Enables comprehensive academic search across publishers with citation data, automatic filtering for peer-reviewed papers, and year range queries.
Enables 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.
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214 npm
190
MIT
Why this server?
Provides scholarly search against Google Scholar through SearXNG, returning academic search results without an offline fallback.
Enables agents to perform local metasearch, scholarly and code/model lookups, and fetch rendered web pages or PDFs as paginated markdown, including stealth browsing and arXiv paper overviews.
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MIT
Why this server?
Allows searching and fetching metadata of academic papers from Google Scholar.
Academic paper search and retrieval MCP server integrating multiple scholarly platforms into a unified interface. Supports search, fetch, trend analysis, and literature review workflows.
