Search academic papers, authors, institutions & publication trends via @cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

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  "command": "node node_modules/@cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server/dist/index.js",
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  "prompts_discovered": ["openalex_literature_review", "openalex_research_landscape"],
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      "args": {
        "query": "Yann LeCun",
        "entity_type": "authors"
      },
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      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "10 matches, top: A5001226970 — 250,938 citations, 481 works, Courant Institute"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_resolve_name",
      "args": {
        "query": "MIT",
        "entity_type": "institutions"
      },
      "ms": 288,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "10 matches, top: I63966007 — MIT, 64M citations, 346k works"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_resolve_name",
      "args": {
        "query": "Nature",
        "entity_type": "sources"
      },
      "ms": 305,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "10 matches, top: S137773608 — Nature, 27M citations, 449k works"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "works",
        "search": "transformer attention mechanism",
        "per_page": 3
      },
      "ms": 834,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "318M total results, 3 returned with DOI/citations/topics"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "authors",
        "search": "Geoffrey Hinton",
        "per_page": 3
      },
      "ms": 539,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "119M total, returns h-index/institutions/topics"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "institutions",
        "filter": "country_code:TR",
        "sort": "works_count:desc",
        "per_page": 5
      },
      "ms": 517,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "127k institutions filtered by Turkey"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "topics",
        "search": "machine learning",
        "per_page": 5
      },
      "ms": 209,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "4,516 topics with descriptions and keyword lists"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "sources",
        "search": "artificial intelligence",
        "per_page": 3
      },
      "ms": 217,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "283k sources — journals and repositories"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_analyze_trends",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "works",
        "group_by": "publication_year",
        "filter": "concepts.display_name:Artificial intelligence",
        "per_page": 10,
        "sort": "key:desc"
      },
      "ms": 293,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "200 year-groups, 2026: 24.5M works, descending trend data"
    },
    {
      "tool": "openalex_search_entities",
      "args": {
        "entity_type": "works",
        "filter": "doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2",
        "per_page": 1
      },
      "ms": 490,
      "ok": true,
      "result_summary": "DOI filter returns broad results, not single-work isolation"
    }
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  "success_rate": "10/10",
  "p50_ms": 293,
  "node_version": "v22.x",
  "tested_at": "2026-06-29T07:10:39Z"
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