openalex-mcp-server

<div align="center"> <h1>@cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server</h1> <p><b>Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.</b></p> <p><b>3 Tools &middot; 2 Prompts</b></p> </div>

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Public Hosted Server: https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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Three tools for querying the OpenAlex academic research catalog:

| Tool Name | Description | |:----------|:------------| | openalex_search_entities | Search, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID across all 8 entity types. | | openalex_analyze_trends | Group-by aggregation for trend and distribution analysis. | | openalex_resolve_name | Resolve a name or partial name to an OpenAlex ID via autocomplete. |

Primary discovery and lookup tool. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders).

• Retrieve a single entity by ID (OpenAlex ID, DOI, ORCID, ROR, PMID, PMCID, ISSN)
• Keyword search with boolean operators, quoted phrases, wildcards, and fuzzy matching
• Exact and AI semantic search modes
• Rich filter syntax: AND across fields, OR within fields (us|gb), NOT (!us), ranges (2020-2024), comparisons (>100)
• Sensible default field selec