Research MCP servers

1000+ scientific tools for AI scientists: life science, reserach, literature, and more.

Unofficial MCP server connecting OpenEvidence to AI agents via authenticated browser sessions

Resolve any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into structured CSL JSON, format in 10,000+ citation styles, or export to BibTeX/RIS/EndNote/Zotero RDF/CSV. Single or batch. Install: npx -y scholar-sidekick-mcp.

Search and cite rare historical texts (alchemy, Hermeticism, Renaissance philosophy) with DOI-backed academic citations from Source Library

Pre-build reality check for AI coding agents. Scans GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, and Product Hunt to detect existing competition before building, returning a reality signal score (0-100), duplicate likelihood, similar projects, and pivot hints.

MCP server for YADE — open-source discrete element method (DEM) engine for granular and particle simulation. Browse API docs with BM25 search, execute code via synchronous REPL or async background tasks, monitor progress, and review task history.

Semantic search over 600k+ CS/AI papers with citation-graph traversal, full-text extraction, embeddings, and BibTeX export. Works anonymously or with a free key. Install: npx scholar-feed-mcp init.

Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API.

Google Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.

The research librarian for the rest of us: reads, keeps and questions your sources.

Evidence-grounded web research for AI agents. Verifies page-local claims with citations, confidence bands, policy reports, and multi-page session synthesis via MCP.

Access legislative data from all 50 US states and Congress — search bills, get full text, track votes, and look up legislators via the LegiScan API.

Give your AI agents the ability to ask real users why.

Update your Colombian CvLAC (MinCiencias) research CV by chatting with your AI assistant.

Catch fabricated citations: verify DOIs/ISBNs and format them in 2900+ CSL styles.

Instantly understand what real users think and why by querying our network of 1:1 Digital Twins - each representing a real person. Give your AI agents authentic human context to ground outputs, improve creative, and make smarter decisions.

Search 474 validated startup gaps from your AI editor. Find unsolved business problems by industry, role, or keyword — each with pain point, solution direction, and link to full blueprint. Zero API keys, works offline.

Harvard Dataverse — research dataset repository (~150k datasets)

OA-first paper fetcher: DOIs/arXiv IDs to local PDFs + metadata via Open Access APIs.

Scopus search, author and affiliation profiles, citation data, and PlumX metrics via Elsevier APIs.

Verify and repair BibTeX references with DOI-first MCP tools.

Lens.org patent + scholarly search (free academic key required)

Academic peer-review and research workflow tools from Science AI Journal: Pre-Check (paper-tier prediction), AI multi-agent peer review, Research Gaps Finder, Journal Recommender (1,214 venues with predatory-journal flags), Duplicate Publication Checker (CrossRef/arXiv/medRxiv/bioRxiv/Unpaywall/900k-paper library), and the Article Writer pipeline. Free local tools (FTS5, zero LLM cost); LLM tools use caller account credits.

Generate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs in BibTeX, APA, MLA formats.

Semantic Scholar Academic Graph MCP.

One call, one paper: everything openly available around it — full text, license, datasets, code…

arXiv MCP — preprint server search (free, no auth)

Crossref MCP — wraps the Crossref REST API (academic papers, free, no auth)

Figshare research outputs (datasets, papers, posters)

CORE Research MCP — wraps CORE API (api.core.ac.uk/v3)

DBLP MCP — Computer Science bibliography

Zenodo (CERN) open research data repository

DataCite MCP — DOIs for research datasets (free, no auth)

Search, cite, and read PDFs from your EndNote library in Claude Desktop

Materials MCP — computed (DFT) materials structures & thermodynamic properties.

OpenCitations COCI — open-license citation index by DOI

Dryad (datadryad.org) MCP — keyless.

PLOS journals — Solr-backed full-text search across all PLOS OA content

Explain why two scientific papers disagree, every claim grounded in a verbatim source quote.

Retractions / research-integrity MCP.

HAL — French national open research archive

UK NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) open-data MCP.

OpenAlex MCP — wraps the OpenAlex API (scholarly works, free, no auth)

DOAJ MCP — Directory of Open Access Journals

A Model Context Protocol server for the Elsevier Scopus API

18 read-only tools over the abliteration.org catalog: every abliterated and uncensored LLM on Hugging Face, their method classification, download trends, deletion history, and four alignment indices.

Read-only MCP server and live-map dataset for declassified U.S. federal UAP/UFO records, with searchable records, hotspots, timelines and direct source links.

Congressional Research Service reports — Congress's own nonpartisan analysis of statutes, federal…

Plan research, score sources for freshness/COI, and enforce claim-level citations in reports.

Query real, quality-scored humans as an agent tool. GetABrain routes a question to paid human workers and returns schema-validated JSON — 16 response types (yes/no, ratings, rankings, A/B tests, sentiment, image/video/audio review, voice/video/photo capture). Fully programmatic signup with a $5 free trial credit, no card required. npx -y @getabrain/mcp-server.

IEEE Xplore MCP — BYOK wrapper over the IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API

Automated AI research toolkit: hypothesis generation, experiments, and paper writing

Source-grounded research for Egyptian public affairs

Find, ground, evaluate, and selectively retain AI research through one local-first MCP.

Semantic Scholar MCP server: 14 typed tools over 200M+ academic papers — search, paper/author retrieval, citation-graph traversal, and recommendations. uvx s2-mcp-server

OpenReview MCP — ML conference submissions and reviews (API v2)

OpenAIRE MCP — EU research outputs (publications, datasets, software, projects)