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com.incitefulmed/academic · v0.1.0

Citation graph search over OpenAlex: similar papers, citation networks, paths and BibTeX export.

Connect Remote server

Terminal
claude mcp add --transport http academic https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "academic": {
      "url": "https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "academic": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Claude Desktop
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp

Tools 8 found in our last check

  • search_literature

    A live keyword search of OpenAlex (CC0 metadata), not of the citation graph snapshot. It matches titles, abstracts and full text where OpenAlex has it, ranked by relevance. Use it to find seed papers when you have a topic but no DOIs yet. Keyword matches miss related work that u…

  • get_papers

    Fetch OpenAlex records for up to 100 papers by DOI, OpenAlex ID (W…), PMID or PMCID: abstract, authors, venue, type and version, is_retracted, PMID/PMCID and the best open-access link with its licence. It does not use the citation graph. Inputs it cannot match come back in unres…

  • find_similar_papers

    Ranks papers by their citation links to the seeds, which surfaces related work that keyword search misses. Give 1–500 seed papers (DOIs, OpenAlex IDs or PMIDs); returns the papers most similar to them by citation links, sorted by score. Method: fast similarity, Adamic/Adar plus…

  • explore_citation_network

    Map a field by its citations rather than its keywords: rank papers, authors, journals or institutions in the depth-2 citation graph Inciteful builds around 1–500 seed papers. analysis: similar (shared references and co-citation with the seeds), important (local PageRank), review…

  • connect_papers

    Find citation paths between two papers (DOI, OpenAlex ID or PMID), treating each citation as a link in either direction. Returns the paths, the citation edges (citing → cited), the papers on the paths, and each path's hop count in provenance.hops. extended: true also returns lon…

  • query_citation_graph

    Run your own read-only SQLite query on the citation graph Inciteful builds around 1–500 seed papers (depth 2). It queries the Inciteful citation graph API; schema: https://incitefulmed.com/academic/help/power-users#database-schema Rules: a single SELECT statement. Rows returned:…

  • read_paper

    Read the full text of an open-access paper from PubMed Central (PMC BioC) in chunks: pass offset (0 to start) and max_chars (up to 40000), then continue from next_offset until it is null. Returns the article's licence and a sha256 of the whole text. When PMC has no text for the…

  • export_citations

    Build BibTeX or RIS citations for up to 100 papers (DOI, OpenAlex ID, PMID or PMCID) from their OpenAlex records, with entry types, years, volume, issue, pages and escaping. Each row holds one entry; join the entries with a blank line to make a .bib or .ris file. Inputs it canno…

Details

Endpointhttps://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
First published9 Nov 2026
Last updated9 Nov 2026
Registry namecom.incitefulmed/academic

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