Schema | research-mcp

research-mcp

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`SCOPUS_API_KEY`	Yes	Your free Scopus API key from dev.elsevier.com.
`UNPAYWALL_EMAIL`	No	Your email address required by Unpaywall for the get_pdf_link tool. Optional but recommended.

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": false }
`experimental`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
search_scopusA	Search for documents in Scopus by query string. Returns title, DOI, Scopus ID, citation count and journal for each match.
get_abstract_detailsA	Retrieve metadata for a Scopus document (authors, journal, citations) plus the abstract text from CrossRef when available.
get_author_profileA	Look up an author's h-index, citation count, paper count, ORCID and affiliations via OpenAlex. Provide the author's full name; returns the top 3 matches to disambiguate.
get_citing_papersB	Retrieve papers that cite a given Scopus document (forward citations).
get_pdf_linkA	Find an open-access PDF for an article by DOI via Unpaywall. Returns the PDF URL if one is legally available, otherwise a note.
get_quota_statusA	Report the Scopus API rate-limit (weekly quota) from the most recent response headers. Returns a note if no Scopus call has been made yet.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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