pubmed-mcp

Item: pubmed-mcp
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

MCP server for accessing NCBI PubMed/PMC databases, enabling search, retrieval of summaries and full records, citation export, and ID conversion through various APIs.

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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.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: PUBMED_MCP_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.

configPUBMED_MCP_EMAIL— no Email reported to NCBI (recommended by their usage policy)

🔐 secretPUBMED_MCP_API_KEY— no NCBI E-utilities API key — raises the rate limit from 3 to 10 requests/second

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: c8a4ae510cef739cee7a85013bb937271b37828b

code hash: 59d8f0cad75622be82572e34a4e49083f95ce30183dd69c9fb097904e113076b

verified: 7/16/2026, 8:44:08 AM

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