OpenAlex MCP

Item: OpenAlex MCP
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

An MCP server for searching and exploring OpenAlex's index of 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, journals, funders, and grants through Claude.

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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.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: OPENALEX_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

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

🔐 secretOPENALEX_API_KEY

configOPENALEX_CONTACT_EMAIL

configOPENALEX_DAILY_BUDGET_USD

configOPENALEX_LOG_CALLS

// full audit trail

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commit: f7d2d5a874b076446b5ffd5eed5aed12f1daf193

code hash: 5d06cf63db53432a0dcb3f36487f79d9fb52ae91f98e3168ea6ec61d0973a977

verified: 7/25/2026, 8:34:21 AM

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