Search PubMed articles, fetch full-text, format citations, explore MeSH via MCP

@cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server — search PubMed's 36M+ biomedical articles, fetch full-text, format citations, explore MeSH. No API key needed.

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

9 tools:

• pubmed_search_articles — full NCBI query syntax, date filters, publication types. Args: query (required).
• pubmed_fetch_articles — fetch metadata by PMIDs, includes MeSH terms and grants. Args: pmids (required array).
• pubmed_fetch_fulltext — full-text from PMC/Unpaywall, section filtering. Args: pmcids or pmids.
• pubmed_format_citations — APA, MLA, BibTeX, and more. Args: pmids (required), format.
• pubmed_find_related — similar articles, citing articles, cited-by. Args: pmid (required).
• pubmed_spell_check — NCBI spell correction for medical queries. Args: query (required).
• pubmed_lookup_mesh — MeSH vocabulary search with scope notes and tree numbers. Args: query (required).
• pubmed_lookup_citation — find PMIDs from partial bibliographic citations. Args: citations (required array).
• pubmed_convert_ids — convert between DOI, PMID, PMCID. Args: ids + idType (required).

5 capabilities: logging, resources, tools, prompts, tasks (rare!).

Performance (3 runs): p50 init 193ms, p50 call 565ms (NCBI API-bound). Zero auth needed.

Key gotcha: ServerInfo reports @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/0.8.18 instead of pubmed-mcp-server — version skew between the mcp-ts-core framework version (0.8.18) and the newer servers (0.10.9).

Verified traces:

• "CRISPR gene editing" search → 24,744 results, returned PMIDs 31295471, 38786024, 36656942
• Spell-check "alzhiemers desease treatment" → corrected to "alzheimers disease treatment"