OpenAlex MCP Server

Enables searching and retrieving academic papers, authors, institutions, and citations from the OpenAlex open scholarly index.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

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.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretOPENALEX_API_KEY— "": "your-api-key",

configOPENALEX_EMAIL— "": "your.email@example.com"

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 2 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 037dcac82c623cf2a88faf547507b39b508ca30c

code hash: d9bf400fa22803d01f64be1075a940a368ff218f7c22b87afb93dbe9f269f22a

verified: 7/4/2026, 9:09:08 AM

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