Best Zotero MCP Servers
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Why this server?
Synchronizes the user's Zotero library, importing paper metadata (titles, authors, abstracts) and linking them to the local PDF library for search and citation management.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceA second brain for researchers — gives Claude persistent memory of your papers, field, and working history, with answers cited from your own indexed libraryLast updated301002AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Enables export of references in RIS and BibTeX formats for import into Zotero.
AlicenseBqualityCmaintenanceComprehensive MCP server for academic research workflows, enabling paper searching across multiple sources, manuscript processing with citation placeholders, search caching, and citation export.Last updated62MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for managing references, articles, and research data through the Zotero platform.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceA lightweight and customizable MCP server for Zotero that enables AI research tools to access and manage references through a simple API.Last updated96MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching, reading, and managing Zotero library items, collections, annotations, and notes.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to search, read, and manage Zotero references locally with customizable research workflows.Last updated94MITWhy this server?
Allows interaction with a Zotero library, providing tools for searching papers, adding papers via arXiv, updating metadata, and retrieving items, as well as resources for recent items and collection items, and prompts for literature review and paper summary.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables LLM-powered tools to interact with Zotero academic libraries, including searching papers, adding arXiv papers, updating metadata, and generating literature reviews.Last updated10MITWhy this server?
Allows adding verified papers to a Zotero library via the Web API.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceBioCite-MCP enables LLMs to retrieve verified academic literature metadata, citations, and BibTeX from Europe PMC and Crossref, and audit manuscripts for citation accuracy.Last updated8MITWhy this server?
Provides read-only tools to search, retrieve metadata, export citations and BibTeX, list collections and tags, and access full text from a Zotero library via its local API.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceRead-only MCP server that lets Claude or any MCP client search and retrieve metadata, notes, full text, citations, and BibTeX from your local Zotero library via its built-in API.Last updated11MITWhy this server?
Provides direct read access to your local Zotero library, allowing Claude to search collections, view item details, and access paper abstracts
AlicenseBqualityFmaintenanceIntegrates local Zotero libraries with Claude's Desktop interface, allowing users to access and manage their library collections via a local API.Last updated455MITWhy this server?
Allows exporting search results in CSL JSON format for use with Zotero, Pandoc, and other citation management tools.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceAn MCP server for Japanese literature research that provides unified search across NDL, CiNii, J-STAGE, and other Japanese academic databases, with Skills to assist in search planning and result evaluation.Last updated277763MIT