OpenAlex MCP Server

Item: OpenAlex MCP Server
Rating: 0
Author: M8ven

Provides academic research tools via the OpenAlex API, enabling searches for papers, authors, concepts, institutions, and citation analysis.

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Reads files from sensitive locations

Touches: ~/.config

// required environment variables

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

configPORT— 8080 Server port (Cloud Run sets automatically)

configHOST

configOPENALEX_BASE_URL

configMAILTO_EMAIL— Edit .env and set your

configMAX_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND— 10 Rate limit for API calls

configLOG_LEVEL— INFO Logging verbosity

configPAGER

configTERM

configLESS

configCOMP_WORDS

configCOMP_CWORD

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

configNOTIFY_SOCKET

configSERVER_SOFTWARE

configGUNICORN_PID

configSENDFILE

configWEB_CONCURRENCY

configFORWARDED_ALLOW_IPS

configSCRIPT_NAME

configLISTEN_FDS

configLISTEN_PID

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commit: 0aacb020751828fc89aafadde153ce1efed9647d

code hash: c4a23aa293ebdecde1a4da2ec3e46872e5abfc14ff505fe7f7c89f09c9287570

verified: 6/22/2026, 1:10:03 PM

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