OpenAlex MCP

Item: OpenAlex MCP
Rating: 56
Author: M8ven

Enables scholarly search, paper metadata, citation graphs, author and venue resolution, candidate harvesting, API quota visibility, and guarded full-text downloads through the OpenAlex API.

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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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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— "": "your-api-key"

configOPENALEX_BASE_URL

configOPENALEX_CONTENT_BASE_URL

configOPENALEX_TIMEOUT— 30 HTTP timeout in seconds

configOPENALEX_DOWNLOAD_ROOT— 7. Leave unset unless I explicitly opt in to file downloads. If I opt in, set it to an absolute directory I approve.

configOPENALEX_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES— 209715200 Maximum downloaded file size, 200 MiB by default

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commit: e139b22ced22e0b724ad84ce43bacb470017161a

code hash: 20c40bbd74a1dd79519b3dcfa8e34119630a265b739fd74d9073cca0468fe9fa

verified: 7/16/2026, 8:44:06 AM

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