"Top 20 MCP servers in the search category based on star ratings" matching MCP servers:

Enables querying today's US stock analyst upgrades, downgrades, initiations, and price-target changes, as well as consensus ratings and covering brokerages for any US ticker.

Seven remote MCP servers exposing 51 published Apify scrapers as agent tools: company diligence, social listening, recruiting, real estate, lead generation, e-commerce and academic research. Billed per result, and a call that returns nothing is never charged.

x402 capability chassis: 170+ AI-callable, pay-per-call data tools (US/global equities, crypto/DeFi, prediction markets, gov/legal, research, infra) settled in USDC on Base mainnet via the Coinbase CDP facilitator. No API keys or accounts — the x402 payment is the auth. Remote MCP at https://the-stall.intuitek.ai/mcp.

Enables academic research through paper search across multiple databases (IACR, CryptoBib, Crossref, Google Scholar), PDF processing, and GitHub repository browsing. Features modular architecture with FastMCP-based proxy server routing to specialized academic tools.

Made-to-order data for AI agents via x402 micropayments on Base. Describe a need in plain language, get a custom quote, pay per call. No signup, no API keys. HTTP + MCP transports. 5 tools.

Enables AI agents to directly manipulate Jupyter Notebook cells and structure through a secure, well-defined API, overcoming Cursor's AI agent mode limitations.

MCP server for searching Chinese academic literature from CNKI Space, returning metadata such as title, authors, year, and links, and retrieving abstracts and degree details. Enables agents to query CNKI without an account.

Enables to search academic papers in Japanese and English, inspect availability of full text, and download public PDFs locally.

Installable MCP server for EU legal research with verifiable CELEX citations from the EUR-Lex corpus (DE/EN/FR).

MCP server for PubMed search and literature summarization

This MCP server enables users to search for scientific papers on arXiv and retrieve detailed metadata for specific papers. It provides tools to perform search queries and fetch in-depth information using paper IDs.

An MCP server that finds recent job postings based on your LinkedIn profile, scores each against your resume, and logs the results — all without logging into or scraping LinkedIn.

Enables searching, downloading, and exporting academic papers from 20+ scholarly sources including arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar. Supports multi-source concurrent search, citation network tracing, and export to CSV, RIS, and BibTeX.

An MCP server for academic paper search that integrates with AI assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor), enabling them to search and retrieve academic paper metadata.

Enables agents to search, analyze, and explore arXiv academic papers with advanced multi-field search, author lookup, category browsing, citation extraction, and bibliography export.

MCP server for academic research using the OpenAlex API, enabling article search, details retrieval, and author profile lookup.

Read-only MCP server for the July 2026 survey of AI in open-source design systems, enabling agents to query 19 systems' affordances, coercion techniques, and platform data via 9 tools, 2 resources, and 2 prompts.

Enables AI coding assistants to query private academic paper collections via standard MCP tools, with hybrid retrieval, reranking, and inline citations.

Search 200M+ patents and scientific literature in natural language using PatSnap's global R&D intelligence database.

Enables searching scholarly literature across CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex, and retrieving open-access PDFs via Unpaywall.