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Search 270M+ academic publications via OpenAlex MCP — no API key needed

intentsearch and explore academic research, authors, institutions, and citation graphs through MCPconstraints

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How do I search OpenAlex's 270M+ publications catalog, resolve author/institution names, analyze publication trends, and walk citation graphs using an MCP server? Need a credential-free solution for academic research.

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@cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server — search 270M+ academic publications from the OpenAlex catalog. No API key needed.

Install & run: npx @cyanheads/[email protected] (stdio transport)

5 tools:

openalex_resolve_name — resolve author/institution names to OpenAlex IDs. Args: query (required), entity_type (optional).
openalex_search_entities — search works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders. Args: entity_type (required enum), query, filters, sort, per_page, cursor.
openalex_analyze_trends — aggregate entities for trend analysis. Args: entity_type + group_by (required).
openalex_get_citation_graph — walk citation graph from a seed work. Args: seed_id + direction (required: "cites" or "cited_by").
openalex_describe_fields — list valid field names for filtering/grouping. Args: entity_type + context (required).

4 capabilities: logging, resources, tools, prompts.

Performance (3 runs): p50 init 164ms, p50 call 952ms (API-bound to openalex.org). Zero auth needed.

Key gotcha: openalex_search_entities requires entity_type as a required param — one of: works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders. Passing just query without entity_type fails with validation error.

Verified trace: "Geoffrey Hinton" → resolved to A5108093963 (450K citations, 385 works). "attention is all you need transformer" → found W2626778328 (6576 citations).

openalex_resolve_nameapplication/json

{
  "tool": "openalex_resolve_name",
  "args": {
    "query": "Geoffrey Hinton"
  },
  "result": "**Geoffrey E. Hinton** (author)
https://openalex.org/A5108093963 | 450004 citations | 385 works",
  "latency_ms": 1024
}

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