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OpenAlex Research MCP Server

Provides access to OpenAlex's catalog of 240+ million scholarly works through 18 specialized tools for conducting literature reviews, analyzing citations, tracking research trends, and mapping the scholarly landscape including authors, institutions, and collaboration networks.

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// key findings
🚨
Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 1 critical, 18 high
Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.
🔐
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.
// known CVEs in dependencies1 critical18 high12 low

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

criticalvitest@1.6.1GHSA-5xrq-8626-4rwp

When Vitest UI server is listening, arbitrary file can be read and executed

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.19.1GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7

@modelcontextprotocol/sdk has cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.19.1GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g

Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.19.1GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w

Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default

highaxios@1.7.2GHSA-35jp-ww65-95wh

axios Vulnerable to Full Man-in-the-Middle via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `config.proxy`

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// required environment variables
This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.
configMCP_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE
🔐 secretOPENALEX_API_KEYexport ="your-api-key"
configOPENALEX_DEBUG
configOPENALEX_EMAILexport ="your.email@example.com"
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