OpenAlex MCP Server

Enables searching scholarly papers and authors via the OpenAlex API, with no API key required.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configOPENALEX_MAILTO— Set the environment variable to opt in (recommended but not

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commit: 09c30d0d9e82fa23d57b2ec85d264aa6bb3381de

code hash: 406f746fc9916ae8adf7dcd8b1358589bdab9d99bf624d045fc0c21261488e8a

verified: 6/24/2026, 10:24:27 AM

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