A side-by-side look at the Datacite MCP Server and Ieee Standards MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Datacite MCP Server for research work as a local process; choose Ieee Standards for research as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
datacite_search_works, datacite_get_work, datacite_trace_relations.ieee_standard_search, ieee_search, ieee_article.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Research | Research |
| Quality signal | 56/100 · Good | 53/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 6 | 3 |
| Full listing | View Datacite MCP Server | View Ieee Standards |
datacite_search_worksSearch works by plain text or query syntax plus structured filters, in ranked pages or a full cursor walk, with optional facet countsdatacite_get_workFetch the full deposited metadata for one DOI, or learn which registration agency holds a DOI DataCite doesn'tdatacite_trace_relationsMap the relation graph around any DOI — versions, parts, supplements, derivations, citations — with each edge's sourcedatacite_search_repositoriesFind repository accounts by text, field of science, type, certificate, software, or provider, and get the `repositoryId` work search filters ondatacite_get_citationRender a DOI as a formatted citation in a CSL style and locale, or as BibTeX, RIS, CSL JSON, and other machine formatsdatacite_list_referenceLook up the vocabularies, identifier forms, and coverage rules the other tools accept, offlineieee_standard_searchSearch IEEE STANDARDS by number or topic and get each standard's title, abstract/scope, publication year, DOI and IEEE Xplore link. Covers the IEEE standards catalogue: IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi / wireless LAN, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, IEEE 1588 PTP precision time protocol, IEEE 1547 distributed energy resourc…ieee_searchSearch the FULL IEEE Xplore corpus — IEEE and IET journal articles, conference proceedings, magazines, books, courses and standards — returning title, authors, abstract, publication venue, year, DOI and the IEEE Xplore link. The broad engineering / computer-science research tool: IEEE paper search,…ieee_articleFetch one IEEE Xplore record by its article_number or DOI: full metadata including title, every author with affiliation, the complete abstract, publication venue, year, volume/issue, page range, publisher, IEEE and author index terms, plus standard_number and standard_status when the record is a st…Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"datacite-mcp-server": {
"command": "bunx",
"args": [
"@cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"ieee-standards": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-ieee-standards"
]
}
}
}