pubmed-mcp-server

Item: pubmed-mcp-server
Rating: 47
Author: M8ven

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or 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.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: NCBI_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.

configEUROPEPMC_ENABLED— Disabled when =false; tool is not registered in that case

configFORCE_COLOR

configGIT_PARAMS

configHUSKY

configNCBI_ADMIN_EMAIL— Contact email sent with NCBI requests (recommended by NCBI) none

🔐 secretNCBI_API_KEY— "": "your-key-here"

configNCBI_INTEGRATION

configNCBI_MAX_RETRIES— Retry attempts for failed NCBI requests 6

configNCBI_REQUEST_DELAY_MS— Minimum gap between NCBI request starts in ms 334 (100 with key)

configNCBI_TIMEOUT_MS— Per-request HTTP timeout in ms 30000

configNCBI_TOOL_IDENTIFIER

configNO_COLOR

configUNPAYWALL_EMAIL— Unpaywall layer (enabled by setting ) resolves DOIs to legal OA copies; extracts HTML landing pages to Markdown via Defuddle or PDFs to text via unpdf

configUNPAYWALL_TIMEOUT_MS— Per-request HTTP timeout for Unpaywall lookups and content fetches, in ms 20000

// 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: 0b6a86cdf052a07a86db26114dac985edb4bc8ce

code hash: 60876d73988659421968aa3a176025afdcb6063b102e30f373ad21c236b94c73

verified: 6/14/2026, 10:58:20 AM

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