Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp safe to use?

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp do?

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp provides 5 tools: Sources, Tools, Install, Development, License. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp actively maintained?

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 0 days ago.

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp

find-research-papers-mcp

Search open-source research papers across arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar.

159/wk 5 tools GitHub npm PyPI

No known CVEs

No license

Actively maintained

Last commit 0d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

5 tools · ~115 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is an MCP server that search open-source research papers across arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio, requires no API key, and scores 88/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-surendranb-find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp does

Give your AI agent scientific grounding: search 250M+ scholarly works across five indexes with one query, and pull references and citations even

Test This Server

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Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp safe to use?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp do?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp provides 5 tools: Sources, Tools, Install, Development, License. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 0 days ago.

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Education

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-surendranb-find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Read me

What io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp does

Give your AI agent scientific grounding: search 250M+ scholarly works across five indexes with one query, and pull references and citations even

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'find-research-papers-mcp' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

find-research-papers-mcp

Give your AI agent scientific grounding: search 250M+ scholarly works across five indexes with one query, and pull references and citations even from paywalled journals.

LLMs hallucinate citations. This server replaces guesswork with verified metadata — every hit is a real record from a real scholarly index, with a DOI, a URL, an abstract, and a retraction flag when the source knows one.

What it does

One search, five indexes — arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar, aggregated into a single hit schema. The same query goes out everywhere; results come back unified.
Paywalled papers, public bibliography — a Nature or IEEE paper you cannot read still has public metadata: get_paper returns its references (Crossref) and citing works (OpenAlex). DOI, abstract, and reference data are public even when full text is not.
Verification built in — verify=true HEAD-checks the landing page and cross-checks OpenAlex's retraction flag. A paper that won't answer is reported as resolves: null (unknown), never as "dead".
Graceful degradation — a rate-limited or failing source is skipped and reported in the response's skipped list. No key required anywhere; one source's outage never breaks a search.
Zero required API keys — works out of the box. An optional Semantic Scholar key lifts its shared-pool rate limit.

Sources

Source	Coverage	Key needed
`arxiv`	Open-access preprints (CS, physics, math, q-bio, q-fin, stats)	no
`openalex`	~250M scholarly works — Nature and all peer-reviewed journals	no
`crossref`	DOI registry — Springer Nature, Elsevier, IEEE, ACM…	no
`pubmed`	30M+ biomedical citations, free full-text via PMC	no
`semanticscholar`	~220M papers, citation graph + TLDRs	optional¹

¹ Semantic Scholar's shared pool rate-limits without a key. Set FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY to lift it. When a source is skipped, the server says so in the response — it never crashes.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`search_papers(query, sources, limit, year_from, year_to, sort, open_access_only)`	Aggregate search across all or selected sources. Returns unified hits: `id, title, authors, year, venue, abstract, doi, url, pdf_url, citations_count, open_access, retracted, type, source`.
`get_paper(identifier, id_type, include_references, include_citations, verify)`	Resolve one paper by DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, OpenAlex ID, or S2 ID (auto-detected), plus its reference and citation graph — works for paywalled papers. With `verify=true` (default), adds `verification: {resolves, retracted, checked_at}`.
`get_research_method()`	The house method: when to use each tool, rules for interpreting results, per-source quirks, verification steps. Agents should call this before interpreting results.
`list_sources()`	What is searchable and from where.

Install

Any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, opencode, …):

uvx find-research-papers-mcp        # or
npx -y find-research-papers-mcp

One-command installer (served from a Cloudflare worker — auto-detects uvx vs npx, finds your harness, merges into the right config, and reports anonymous install telemetry back to the worker — Claude Code, Cursor, opencode, Windsurf, VS Code):

curl -fsSL https://papers-mcp-install-telemetry.reachsuren.workers.dev/install?src=readme | bash
# or explicitly:  bash install.sh --claude   bash install.sh --opencode

Claude Code plugin (one-time registration, then install from anywhere):

/plugin marketplace add surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp
/plugin install find-research-papers@find-research-papers-mcp

Official MCP Registry — the server is listed as io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp, installable through clients that support the registry.

From source:

uv venv .venv --python 3.11
uv pip install --python .venv/

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp#readme)

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

88/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−12

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked find-research-papers-mcp against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (5)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~115 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

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How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp safe to use?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp do?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp provides 5 tools: Sources, Tools, Install, Development, License. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 0 days ago.