Scholar MCP server

by Liyux3·io.github.Liyux3/scholar-mcp·v0.8.4

Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

B83/100grade B

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B83/100

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3 stars118 downloads/wk

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download_paper
Resolve one paper to an open-access PDF and save it to disk, optionally indexing it into a library collection.
paper_info
Get metadata for one known paper, optionally with the papers that cite it and the papers it references.
read_paper
Fetch a paper's PDF into a temporary file and return page-aware Markdown text plus selectors for its figures and tables.
recommend_papers
Find related papers by a chosen citation-graph relation.
search_authors
Search for researchers by name and return profiles with affiliations, paper counts, h-index and identifiers.
search_papers
Search for academic papers across many sources (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, OpenReview, Crossref and more), merge duplicates across DOI/arXiv/S2/OpenAlex identities, and rerank for relevance.

scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-20 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

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Code scan38 source files scanned25/25
–Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
–Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
Auth qualitystatic API keys via environment variables6/15
Maintenancelast push 1 days ago15/15
Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10

Overall 83/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.Rubric Appeal a finding JSON

claude mcp add scholar-mcp -- uvx scholar-mcp

Is Scholar MCP server safe?: Mostly: it is graded B (83/100). Read the Scholar MCP safety report
How do I install Scholar MCP?: It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor config from the install section.
Does Scholar MCP need an API key?: Yes. The registry entry asks for S2_API_KEY, OPENALEX_API_KEY, CORE_API_KEY, SCOPUS_API_KEY and 4 more.
Is Scholar MCP maintained?: The last commit was in the last day (2026-09-19). The latest release is v0.8.4.
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