ScholarMCP is an MCP server that exposes literature-research tooling to MCP-compatible clients.
Core Capabilities
- Federated paper search across OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, and optional Scholar scraping
- Google Scholar keyword and advanced search flows
- Author profile lookup on Google Scholar
- Full-text ingestion pipeline with parser fallbacks (
grobid -> simple) - Structured extraction for claims, methods, datasets, metrics, and references
- Citation recommendation, bibliography generation, and citation validation
Runtime Modes
stdio(recommended): launched by your MCP client as a local processhttp: persistent server with MCP endpoint and health routeboth: run stdio + HTTP at the same time
Typical Workflow
- Search for relevant literature
- Ingest and parse target papers
- Extract structured findings from parsed documents
- Generate references and validate manuscript citations