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mcp server

openalex-mcp-server

Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog — 270M+ publications.

Description as published by the maintainer. Source

  • version 0.7.8
  • active
  • retrieval

active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-07-27. Dashed tags are derived by ZBS Index from the published description, not stated by the maintainer.

What this server can do

5 functions, named and described by the server itself. Parameter names are shown because they say more about what a function does than its name usually does.

openalex_analyze_trends(order, cursor, filters, group_by, per_page, entity_type, include_unknown)
Aggregate OpenAlex entities into groups and count them. Use for trend analysis (group works by publication_year), distribution analysis (group by oa_status, type, country), and comparative analysis (group by institution or topic). Combine with filters to scope the analysis. Returns up to 200 groups per page — use cursor pagination for fields with many distinct values. Required: entity_type, group_by.
openalex_describe_fields(query, context, entity_type)
List valid field names for an OpenAlex entity type and context (filter, group_by, or select). Use proactively before constructing a filter or group_by to avoid invalid-field 400 errors. Pass `query` to narrow the results by name similarity — useful when you have a partial or guessed field name. Required: entity_type, context.
openalex_get_citation_graph(sort, cursor, select, filters, seed_id, per_page, direction)
Walk the citation graph one hop from a seed work. Direction picks the edge: incoming citations (`cites`), the seed's own references (`cited_by`), or OpenAlex's algorithmically-related works (`related_to`). Note: `direction` follows OpenAlex's filter convention, which inverts the common English reading — `cites` returns works that cite the seed; `cited_by` returns works the seed cites. Results use the works schema; combine with filters/sort to narrow further. Required: seed_id, direction.
openalex_resolve_name(query, filters, entity_type)
Resolve a name or an identifier to an OpenAlex ID. ALWAYS use this before filtering by entity — names are ambiguous, IDs are not. A name returns up to 10 autocomplete matches with disambiguation hints. An identifier — OpenAlex ID, DOI, ORCID, ROR, PMID, PMCID, or ISSN, bare or in URL form — resolves directly to the one record it addresses, and needs no entity_type. Required: query.
openalex_search_entities(id, seed, sort, query, cursor, sample, select, filters, per_page, entity_type, search_mode)
Search, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders). Pass `id` to retrieve a single entity. Otherwise, use `query` and/or `filters` for discovery. Supports keyword search with boolean operators, exact phrase matching, and AI semantic search. Use openalex_resolve_name to resolve names to IDs before filtering. Searches and ID lookups return a curated set of fields by default; pass `select` to override with specific fields, or `["*"]` for the full record. Required: entity_type.

Last successful function declaration observed on . Source: https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp. We list what the server declared; we do not call any of these functions.

Endpoint status observed on . Source: https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp.

Signals

These are separate measurements of different things. They are deliberately not combined into one score, because a popularity number that mixes website traffic with saves and stars cannot be checked or acted on.

Signal Value What it measures Window Observed Source
GitHub stars 11 Number of GitHub accounts that bookmarked this repository since it was created. It is a bookmark count, not installs, not active users and not quality. cumulative, all time GitHub
Last commit 2026-07-27 Date of the most recent push to any branch. This is the strongest cheap indicator of whether the project is still maintained. point in time GitHub
Open issues 6 Open issues plus open pull requests, as GitHub counts them together. A high number can mean an active project or an abandoned one. as of fetch GitHub
Latest published version 0.7.8 Latest version string the maintainer published to the registry. as of fetch Model Context Protocol
Registry record last updated 2026-07-27 When the registry record was last updated by its maintainer. point in time Model Context Protocol
License Apache-2.0 Licence GitHub detected in the repository. Detection can be wrong; the LICENSE file is authoritative. as of fetch GitHub
First listed in the MCP Registry 2026-07-27 Date this server was first published to the official MCP Registry. Not a usage or quality measure. point in time Model Context Protocol
repository status active The repository exists on GitHub and is not archived. This says nothing about how recently it was worked on. as of fetch GitHub
mcp tools declared 5 tools Number of functions the server itself declared when asked to list them. This is what the server offers an agent, not a measure of how well any of them work. as of probe openalex.caseyjhand.com
mcp endpoint status ok The server listed 5 functions when asked. as of probe openalex.caseyjhand.com

Where to get it

Related, by what their authors tagged them

These share tags the maintainers applied themselves, such as academic-search, citation-analysis, openalex, bibliometrics. Common tags like "mcp" or "ai" are ignored for this: agreeing with six hundred other projects is not a similarity.

This is not a recommendation and not a test result. It is a map of what the authors said their work is about.

Also from cyanheads

How the author describes it

Topics the maintainer set on GitHub: academic-research, academic-search, bibliometrics, citation-analysis, cyanheads, literature-search, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, openalex, scholarly-data, scholarly-research, typescript.

This record as data

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Sources

  1. cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server on GitHub — GitHub, observed , trust tier 3.
  2. Tools declared by the MCP server at https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp — openalex.caseyjhand.com, observed , trust tier 4.
  3. Official MCP Registry — Model Context Protocol, observed , trust tier 1.