scholar-mcp

Item: scholar-mcp
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

A FastMCP server for the scholarly citation landscape that enables LLMs to search, cross-reference, and retrieve prior art across papers, patents, books, and standards via multiple APIs.

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// key findings

✅

29 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

24 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

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 1 credential: SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN

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.

configNEW_VERSION

🔐 secretSCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: c8b425eca96e49534c0dd91b514cf777218479ec

code hash: 7fa6d26430d3eba90df5ebea2bb8add76377b501a6df4cd796df84939a0b6589

verified: 7/31/2026, 9:23:24 AM

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