Research Topic Institutions and Authors MCP Server

An MCP server for the Mamba Labs Research Topic Institutions and Authors actor on Apify. Turn a research topic into ranked institutions and authors from OpenAlex.

What's Inside

• What it does

• Quick start

• Prerequisites

• Example prompts

• Tool

• Inputs

• Pricing

• Full actor documentation

• License

Related MCP server: AXE Fleet MCP Server

What it does

Give a research topic as a keyword or OpenAlex topic ID. The actor groups matching OpenAlex works and returns one row per institution or author, ranked by works on the topic, with ROR, ORCID, total works, citations, h-index, and newest papers on the topic. It returns only what OpenAlex publishes, and no email or phone. A free OpenAlex key from the buyer is optional and gives that buyer a larger daily budget.

All of the work runs on Apify. This package is a thin client that starts the actor run, waits for it, and hands back the dataset rows.

Quick start

You need Node.js 18 or newer and an Apify account with an API token.

Add this to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor, or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mamba-research-topic-institutions-authors": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mambalabsdev/mcp-research-topic-institutions-authors"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. The find_research_topic_institutions_authors tool appears.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or newer.

• An Apify API token from console.apify.com/account/integrations, set as APIFY_TOKEN. The server lists its tool without a token; a call needs one.

Example prompts

• "Which institutions publish the most on perovskite solar cells?"

• "Find the top authors on CRISPR base editing since 2022, with their newest papers."

• "List companies publishing on solid state batteries in Germany."

Tool

find_research_topic_institutions_authors. One tool. Example arguments:

{
  "topics": [
    "perovskite solar cells"
  ],
  "max_institutions": 5,
  "max_authors": 5,
  "recent_papers": 2
}

Inputs

Every buyer facing input of the actor. Omitted inputs take the actor's own defaults.

Pricing

Pay per event on Apify, billed to your Apify account. Prices in USD.

Topic summaries, refused or failed topics, and refused input are free. Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of the run. Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of the run, Apify proxy traffic included.

Full actor documentation

apify.com/mambalabs/research-topic-institutions-authors

License

MIT. See LICENSE.