Openalex Mcp Server

Connect Remote server

claude mcp add --transport http openalex-mcp-server https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openalex-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "openalex-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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URL: https://openalex.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Tools 5 found in our last check

• openalex_resolve_name

  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, ISSN, or arXiv ID,…

• openalex_search_entities

  Search, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders, awards). Pass `id` to retrieve a single entity; on works it also takes an arXiv ID, found by its arXiv landing page when OpenA…

• openalex_analyze_trends

  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. Retu…

• openalex_get_citation_graph

  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…

• openalex_describe_fields

  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 rank the list by name similarity — useful when you have a partial or guessed…

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