Scholar MCP Server

Item: Scholar MCP Server
Rating: 73
Author: M8ven

Unified MCP server for scientific literature search and extraction, integrating databases like Scopus, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and Unpaywall to enable AI agents to discover papers, track citations, and analyze content.

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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

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You'll be asked for 3 credentials: SCOPUS_API_KEY, SCOPUS_INST_TOKEN, S2_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.

🔐 secretSCOPUS_API_KEY— Yes Elsevier API key for Scopus search and author retrieval.

🔐 secretSCOPUS_INST_TOKEN— No Institutional token for full abstract access via Scopus.

configCONTACT_EMAIL— Yes Email for OpenAlex/Unpaywall polite-pool API routing.

🔐 secretS2_API_KEY— No Semantic Scholar API key for TLDRs and S2 graph access.

configSCIHUB_MIRRORS— No Comma-separated list of active Sci-Hub mirrors for PDF fallback.

configLIBGEN_MIRRORS— No Comma-separated list of active Library Genesis mirrors.

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commit: 65ebee8efc2bf4dc90a55fc519aa21d34efb351f

code hash: ebfba769c043536308e2da9a09a4845a7bd1c361ee8ed7a43602416ba6fadaa4

verified: 7/28/2026, 9:07:31 AM

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