"Using Google Scholar for Conducting Deep and Critical Literature Reviews" matching MCP tools:

• search_google_scholar

  Academic Research MCP Server

  Query Google Scholar for academic papers, citations, and research articles across all disciplines. Returns paper title, authors, publication venue, citation count, abstract preview, and full-text link if available. Use for comprehensive literature searches, citation tracking, or finding highly-cited works.

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• search_google_scholar

  academic-research-mcp-server

  Query Google Scholar for academic papers, citations, and research articles across all disciplines. Returns paper title, authors, publication venue, citation count, abstract preview, and full-text link if available. Use for comprehensive literature searches, citation tracking, or finding highly-cited works.

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• search_pubmed

  Pubmed

  PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for biomedical / clinical / life-sciences research. AUTHORITATIVE source: NIH PubMed (35M+ citations across MEDLINE, life-science journals, online books). Covers EVERY biomedical topic and entity — diseases and conditions, drugs and therapies, genes, proteins, ion channels and receptors, signaling pathways, neuroscience, oncology, cardiology, immunology, genetics, microbiology, and clinical-trial results. Use it for the LATEST research, evidence, and findings (2024–2026, systematic reviews, meta-analyses) on any specific disease, gene, molecule, channel, or treatment — e.g. "Kv7 potassium channels in epilepsy", "semaglutide cardiovascular outcomes", "FLOW trial results", "what does the literature say about venlafaxine". Searches by keyword, author, or MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) term — supports field qualifiers like "Smith J[Author]" or "COVID-19[MeSH]". Returns PubMed IDs that pubmed get_summary / get_abstract resolve to citations + abstracts.

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• audit_dependency_tree

  Commit — Supply Chain Risk Scoring

  Map the full dependency tree of an npm package and identify CRITICAL supply chain risks at every level. Unlike auditing a flat list of packages, this tool traverses the dependency graph — showing not just your direct dependencies but also what your dependencies depend on. Hidden CRITICAL packages (sole publisher + >10M weekly downloads) often lurk 1-2 levels deep. Risk flags: - CRITICAL: single npm publisher + >10M weekly downloads — sole point of failure for a massive attack surface - HIGH: sole publisher + >1M/wk, OR new package (<1yr) with high adoption - WARN: no release in 12+ months (potential abandonware) depth=1 (default): root package + all direct dependencies depth=2: also traverses one more level for any CRITICAL/HIGH direct deps (reveals hidden exposure) Examples: - audit_dependency_tree("express") — see all of Express's deps and their risk scores - audit_dependency_tree("langchain", 2) — reveal transitive CRITICAL deps 2 levels deep - audit_dependency_tree("@anthropic-ai/sdk") — audit Anthropic SDK full tree Use this when someone asks: - "What am I really depending on?" - "Are my dependencies' dependencies safe?" - "Show me the full supply chain risk for package X"

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• checkRetraction

  Scholar Sidekick

  Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?' or wants to verify a paper's standing before citing it (clinical, regulatory, evidence-synthesis contexts). For multi-paper bibliography audits (clinical guidelines, systematic reviews), loop one call per identifier — the tool intentionally rejects batch input to keep retraction-status results unambiguous per work. Sourced from Crossref `updated-by` (which mirrors Retraction Watch). Resolves DOI/PMID/PMCID/arXiv/ADS inputs to a DOI before lookup; ISBN inputs always return doi=null and reason='no_doi' since books are not in the retraction graph. Single identifier per call — does NOT accept comma/newline batches; loop one call per identifier for multiple papers. Returns: { doi, resolvedFrom?, reason?, result } where result has isRetracted, hasCorrections, hasConcern (booleans), notices (array of {type, label, doi, date, source} where type is a raw Crossref update type such as 'retraction', 'correction', 'erratum' or 'expression_of_concern'), and title; result is null when no DOI could be resolved and reason explains why ('no_doi'). No sibling tool overlaps this — resolveIdentifier returns metadata but not retraction status. Read-only and idempotent — safe to retry. Works anonymously against the public Scholar Sidekick API (rate-limited free tier); set SCHOLAR_API_KEY (a free ssk_ key from https://scholar-sidekick.com/account) for higher limits, or RAPIDAPI_KEY for paid RapidAPI tiers. Rate limits follow your tier; Crossref is queried server-side with its own caching.

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• find_methodology

  OpenArx

  Find methodology approaches for a specific research task. Returns structured method-level results (not raw chunks): method name, key idea, dataset used, performance metric. Filters by task domain, dataset, metric. Built on LLM-classified contentType=methodology chunks combined with benchmark results JOIN. Use this instead of `search` when you want HOW researchers approach a problem rather than 10 papers about it. Note: surfaces any chunk classified as methodology, including ones where the task is mentioned only as a toy example. Filter by category (e.g. cs.CV for image tasks) to narrow scope. This searches EXISTING papers for methods others have published (literature search) — it is NOT a guide for conducting your own research: for a step-by-step scientific method tailored to your own research question, start with the `methodist` door.

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• find_evidence

  OpenArx

  Fact-check or substantiate a claim against the corpus. Given a textual claim, retrieves and CLASSIFIES evidence into supporting / contradicting / neutral groups. Uses HyDE (hypothetical document expansion) — server generates plausible supporting/contradicting text, embeds, retrieves, then ranks by relation to original claim. Returns chunks with selfContained flag (safe-to-cite indicator). Use for fact-verification, controversy mapping, 'is this claim known?' queries. Modes: 'fast' (~3s, symmetric-by-construction grouping) / 'deep' (~10s, independent NLI classification). IMPORTANT: in 'fast' mode the supporting/contradicting counts are approximately balanced BY CONSTRUCTION and do NOT reflect actual literature distribution. Use 'deep' when measuring controversy balance, literature distribution, or any claim of the form 'the field is split N:M on this'.

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• get_research_papers

  TensorFeed

  Get recent AI/ML research papers from one of three feeds, chosen with the source argument. arxiv_recent is the firehose: newest arXiv submissions in cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL / cs.CV by submission date, refreshed daily at 11:30 UTC. trending is citation-ranked from Semantic Scholar across five fan-out queries, deduped, refreshed daily at 11:00 UTC. hf_daily is Hugging Face editor-curated with community upvotes and discussion counts, refreshed daily at 14:15 UTC. Pick arxiv_recent for what is brand new, trending for what is influential, hf_daily for what practitioners are discussing. License: arXiv and Semantic Scholar permit metadata use; the standard attribution block ships on every response.

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• get_paper

  Semanticscholar

  Get full metadata for a single paper by ID. Accepts a Semantic Scholar paper ID, or a prefixed ID like "DOI:10.1145/3292500", "arXiv:2106.15928", or "CorpusId:215416146". Returns abstract, TLDR summary, authors, venue, citation/reference counts, fields of study, and open-access PDF. Keyless.

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• review_gap

  Moonlings — Local Business Intelligence

  Compare a local business's Google rating and review count against the top same-category rivals nearby, with the gap math done: who leads, the rating delta, the review-volume ratio, and a verdict (leading / rated_equal_or_better_but_outreviewed / trailing). Live Google Maps lookup at call time. Call this when a user wants to know how a business's reviews stack up against local competitors. Takes a few seconds. Price: $0.39 per delivered comparison.

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• check_citations

  pubscope

  Verify a pasted reference list (plain text, BibTeX or RIS) against Crossref, OpenAlex, DataCite, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed and DBLP, plus Retraction Watch. Flags references that cannot be found (possibly fabricated), retracted papers and DOI mismatches. One check per day without an account; sign in for more.

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• get_dealer

  OpenDealer MCP Server

  Get comprehensive information about a specific dealership. Returns Google-enriched dealer knowledge optimized for assistants: • Name, address, phone, website • Google rating, review count, hours, business status • Inventory count and OpenDealer profile links • Contact points for sales / customer service Use this when a shopper asks "tell me about X dealership" or needs hours/ratings for a known dealer. Prefer a slug from dealers_near or search results. CRITICAL: Only use URL fields from the response (website, urls.*). NEVER invent or construct URLs.

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• list_inbox

  Hermoso

  EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAID TO THIS BRAND, across every connected channel, in one list: Facebook and Instagram comments, Threads replies and mentions, YouTube and Reddit comments, Google Business reviews, Bluesky replies and mentions, and X mentions. Use this for 'what do I need to reply to', 'any new comments', 'how are people responding'. Each item carries a composite id you hand straight to reply_to_inbox_item. A channel that is not connected is skipped silently; a channel that FAILS to read is named in `notes` rather than dropped, so a short list is never mistaken for a quiet week. Free — it only re-reads what the per-channel tools already read.

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• g2_reviews

  review-intelligence-mcp-server

  Get G2 software reviews. Returns ratings, pros, cons, use cases. Args: product: Software product name (e.g. 'Salesforce') max_results: Max reviews (default 20)

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• tourradar_vertex-review-search

  MolTravel

  [tourradar] Search tour reviews using AI-powered semantic search. Requires tourIds to scope results to specific tours. Use this when the user asks about reviews, feedback, or experiences for specific tours. Combine with an optional text query to find reviews mentioning specific topics (e.g., 'food', 'guide', 'accommodation'). When you don't have tour IDs, use vertex-tour-search or vertex-tour-title-search first to find them.

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• search_reviews

  Cochrane Medical Reviews

  Search Cochrane systematic reviews via PubMed. Finds Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews articles matching your query. Returns PubMed IDs, titles, and publication dates. Use get_review_detail with a PMID to get the full abstract. Args: query: Search terms for finding reviews (e.g. 'diabetes exercise', 'hypertension treatment', 'childhood vaccination safety'). limit: Maximum number of results to return (default 20, max 100).

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• methodist

  OpenArx

  START HERE with your research question. This is your step-by-step scientific METHOD guide: it works out what kind of research you're doing, hands you the concrete method one stage at a time, reviews each stage you submit (approves it or returns it for fixes), and controls what gets published. It DIRECTS your research process — it never does the work for you. (This guides HOW you conduct the work. It is NOT the tool for finding methods described in existing papers — for that, use the literature-search tools.)

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• checkRetraction

  Scholar Sidekick

  Check whether a single scholarly work has been retracted, corrected, or had an expression of concern raised. Use when the user asks 'has this paper been retracted?' or wants to verify a paper's standing before citing it (clinical, regulatory, evidence-synthesis contexts). For multi-paper bibliography audits (clinical guidelines, systematic reviews), loop one call per identifier — the tool intentionally rejects batch input to keep retraction-status results unambiguous per work. Sourced from Crossref `updated-by` (which mirrors Retraction Watch). Resolves DOI/PMID/PMCID/arXiv/ADS inputs to a DOI before lookup; ISBN inputs always return doi=null and reason='no_doi' since books are not in the retraction graph. Single identifier per call — does NOT accept comma/newline batches; loop one call per identifier for multiple papers. Returns: { doi, resolvedFrom?, reason?, result } where result has isRetracted, hasCorrections, hasConcern (booleans), notices (array of {type, label, doi, date, source} where type is a raw Crossref update type such as 'retraction', 'correction', 'erratum' or 'expression_of_concern'), and title; result is null when no DOI could be resolved and reason explains why ('no_doi'). No sibling tool overlaps this — resolveIdentifier returns metadata but not retraction status. Read-only and idempotent — safe to retry. Works anonymously against the public Scholar Sidekick API (rate-limited free tier); set SCHOLAR_API_KEY (a free ssk_ key from https://scholar-sidekick.com/account) for higher limits, or RAPIDAPI_KEY for paid RapidAPI tiers. Rate limits follow your tier; Crossref is queried server-side with its own caching.

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• google-maps.review_details

  Vee3

  Get details for one Google Maps review. Provide review_id from a place reviews response. Returns one review object at the top level with fields such as review_id, review_text, rating, and user_name when available. Additional upstream fields may appear. Cost = 2 tokens.

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• get_reviews_summary

  server

  Get a reviews summary for a HeySpark-listed business. Shows overall rating, review count, and review highlights (Premium tier only).

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