"Exploring MCP Server Model Context Protocols for Research Paper Creation" matching MCP servers:

• Paper Distill MCP Server

  Eclipse-Cj

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  An academic research tool that enables users to search across nine major paper sources, rank results with AI-driven criteria, and automate paper notifications to multiple platforms. It streamlines literature management through integrated support for Zotero, Obsidian, and personal library website generation.

  Last updated 2026-03-24

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  AGPL 3.0

• research-hub

  WenyuChiou

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  quality

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  AI-operable research workspace integrating Zotero, Obsidian, and NotebookLM. Search papers (arXiv/Semantic Scholar/PubMed/CrossRef), ingest into Zotero, sync per-paper notes to Obsidian, verify NotebookLM briefs. All three external tools optional.

  Last updated 2026-07-21

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  38

  MIT

• Model Council MCP Server

  ivanantigravity-lgtm

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  Runs a task through 3 parallel AI models (China or USA preset) and returns concise responses for Claude to synthesize.

  Last updated 2026-04-22

  4

  1

  MIT

• gigaxity-deep-research

  yoloshii

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  An open-source deep research MCP server that provides multi-source web search and synthesis with citations, enabling agents to perform citation-backed research using Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking and other models.

  Last updated 2026-07-19

  6

  44

  MIT

• multi-model-mcp

  fernando-freitas-alves

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  An MCP server that exposes tools for sub-agent style reasoning across multiple LLM providers, enabling delegation of prompts to various models and running critique loops, debates, red-teaming, and answer ranking.

  Last updated 2026-06-22

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• video-research-mcp

  Galbaz1

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  45-tool MCP server for video analysis, deep research, content extraction, web search, and Weaviate knowledge storage. Powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro.

  Last updated 2026-07-22

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  22

  MIT

• context-compose

  lazylagom

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  A system for defining, composing, and managing task-specific contexts for AI-powered development, enabling consistent, high-quality results.

  Last updated 2025-06-17

  3

  7

  1

  MIT

• MCP Server for Splunk

  deslicer

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  Enables AI agents to interact seamlessly with Splunk environments through 20+ tools for search, analytics, data discovery, administration, and health monitoring. Features AI-powered troubleshooting workflows and supports multiple Splunk instances with production-ready security.

  Last updated 2026-07-20

  53

  27

  Apache 2.0

• youtube-research-mcp

  lee-s-dev

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  Enables AI assistants to research YouTube videos by collecting captions, comments, and channel information for analysis and comparison.

  Last updated 2026-05-19

  10

  9

  MIT

• Context+

  forloopcodes

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  Context+ is a semantic intelligence server that transforms codebases into searchable, hierarchical feature graphs using RAG, Tree-sitter AST, and spectral clustering. It provides tools for deep code discovery, blast radius analysis, and memory graph management for high-accuracy engineering tasks.

  Last updated 2026-07-13

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  152

  1,951

  MIT

• io.github.peterkolbe/ableton

  peterkolbe

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  MCP server that bridges Ableton Live with AI models, enabling real-time project inspection and control such as track overview, device parameters, and audio analysis.

  Last updated 2026-05-15

  12

  MIT

• HUST CNKI Research MCP

  graywind-labs

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  Enables AI agents to search, read, and cite Chinese academic papers from CNKI using HUST single sign-on, with support for full-text retrieval, BibTeX export, and PDF download.

  Last updated 2026-07-10

  7

  2

• Optical Context MCP

  ChrBoebel

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  Compress OCR-heavy PDFs into dense packed images so agents can work with long visual documents.

  Last updated 2026-04-04

  3

  1

  MIT

• UK Legal Research MCP Server

  paulieb89

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  Provides comprehensive tools for searching UK case law, legislation, parliamentary Hansard debates, and HMRC tax guidance. It features a specialized OSCOLA citation parser to extract and resolve legal references directly from text.

  Last updated 2026-07-16

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  11

  MIT

• Out of Context

  HJeon139

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  An MCP server for managing contextual data as markdown files with metadata, enabling agents to save, retrieve, search, and delete contexts using simple CRUD operations.

  Last updated 2025-12-18

  5

  Apache 2.0

• MCP Server with OpenAI

  agaonker

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  Provides tools for file system operations and text generation using OpenAI-compatible models via the Model Context Protocol, supporting both stdio and HTTP transports.

  Last updated 2026-06-21

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• 🍋 LemonCake — Billing &

  evidai

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  Pay-per-call USDC payment proxy for AI agents. Issue scoped Pay Tokens with hard spending caps and auto-journal every charge to freee / Money Forward / QuickBooks.

  Last updated 2026-06-17

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  116

  2

  MIT

• toolkit-mcp-server

  cyanheads

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  A Model Context Protocol server that provides LLM Agents with a comprehensive toolset for IP geolocation, network diagnostics, system monitoring, cryptographic operations, and QR code generation.

  Last updated 2026-06-28

  5

  137

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  Apache 2.0
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  Kylas CRM MCP Serverofficial

  kylastech

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  Model Context Protocol server for Kylas CRM lead operations, enabling lead creation, search/filter, and lookup of users, products, and pipelines.

  Last updated 2026-07-27

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  12

  MIT

• aria-mcp-server

  pkotecha-eng

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  Clinical research MCP server providing real-time access to PubMed (35M+ papers) and ClinicalTrials.gov (400K+ trials). Built for trial coordinators and life sciences teams. No API key required.

  Last updated 2026-07-13

  3

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  MIT