google-scholar-search-mcp (LWaetzig/google-scholar-search-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 71 out of 100, grade C. It declares 6 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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google-scholar-search-mcp

An MCP server for searching Google Scholar, enabling paper search, author lookup, citation tracking, and BibTeX export for AI assistants and automation workflows.

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// 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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These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configGS_MIN_DELAY5.0 Minimum seconds between requests
configGS_MAX_DELAY15.0 Maximum seconds between requests
configGS_MAX_RETRIES3 Number of retries on failure
configGS_PROXY_TYPEnone Proxy mode: none, free, single, scraperapi
configGS_PROXY_HTTPHTTP proxy URL (for single mode)
configGS_PROXY_HTTPSHTTPS proxy URL (for single mode)
🔐 secretGS_SCRAPERAPI_KEYScraperAPI key (for scraperapi mode)
configGS_TIMEOUT30 Request timeout in seconds
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

6/6 tools missing one or more hints — search_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_author (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_paper_details (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +3 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool handlers catch errors

Only 1/6 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (17%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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