Paper Search MCP Server

Enables searching, downloading, and reading academic papers from multiple platforms including arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, IACR, Google Scholar, RePEc/IDEAS, and Sci-Hub with PDF to Markdown conversion.

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// key findings

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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

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 2 credentials: NCBI_API_KEY, SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_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.

configCROSSREF_MAILTO— "": "your_email@example.com",

🔐 secretNCBI_API_KEY— Increase PubMed rate limit Optional

configNCBI_EMAIL

configSCIHUB_MIRROR— Custom Sci-Hub mirror Optional

🔐 secretSEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY— Increase Semantic Scholar rate limit ✅

configPAPER_DOWNLOAD_PATH— "": "~/paper_downloads"

// 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 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 8abdc71081d37de7d5285edbd88f5026166ce4d4

code hash: 01eecc2642000be1c52d98b8f7c4c0611563fb75e8195ee24586360668a1d9c8

verified: 6/24/2026, 10:33:26 AM

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