Schema | OpenAlex MCP Server

OpenAlex MCP Server

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`OPENALEX_BEARER_TOKEN`	No	Bearer token for authenticated API access (optional)
`OPENALEX_DEFAULT_EMAIL`	No	Default email for rate limiting when no mailto parameter provided

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.

Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
search_worksC	Search scholarly works in OpenAlex
search_authorsC	Search authors and researchers
search_sourcesC	Search journals and sources
search_institutionsD	Search institutions
search_topicsC	Search research topics (formerly concepts)
search_publishersD	Search publishers
search_fundersC	Search funders
get_entityC	Get a single entity by its OpenAlex ID
autocompleteC	Type ahead search across any OpenAlex entity type
classify_textC	Classify arbitrary text to predict research concepts and confidence scores
get_filterable_fieldsC	Get a list of filterable field names and their types for a specified OpenAlex entity.

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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