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Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. Supports STDIO and Streamable HTTP.

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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.
🔐
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.
configFORCE_COLOR
configGIT_PARAMS
configHUSKY
configNO_COLOR
🔐 secretOPENALEX_API_KEY— "": "your-email@example.com"
configOPENALEX_BASE_URL— OpenAlex API base URL. https://api.openalex.org
// full audit trail
The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 1 concrete improvement we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
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commit: daec6d6506f530ef36b9549d0b8170dc7f889627
code hash: 53de9d5f1338c223db36d85b79d27cc7cb8200617c11b7f64af12e0a277a49d6
verified: 6/10/2026, 10:55:20 AM
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