OpenAlex MCP Server

Provides access to OpenAlex's catalog of 240M+ scholarly works, enabling search and retrieval of research papers, authors, institutions, journals, concepts, and funders with advanced filtering and classification capabilities.

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// key findings

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Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 15 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

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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 1 credential: OPENALEX_BEARER_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.

🔐 secretOPENALEX_BEARER_TOKEN— Bearer token for authenticated API access (optional)

configOPENALEX_DEFAULT_EMAIL— Default email for rate limiting when no mailto parameter provided

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: 615fbc480eb9009b34e72e1574e8a0c9e56e165d

code hash: 764e3f98f169d00122302fb0ab7ae5a8e2149fab5f55f9d779455872dfc02c6c

verified: 6/9/2026, 10:12:55 AM

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