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Search scholarly works, pull paper metadata, and walk citation networks from chat — OpenAlex is an open catalog of the global research system.
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Academic Researchers, PhD Students, R&D Teams, Literature Review Leads
Connect OpenAlex to any MCP client in minutes
https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/openalexThe link prefills the Add custom connector dialog — you still review the values and click Add, then Connect to complete OAuth.
OpenAlex and paste the MCP URL into Remote MCP server URL.Custom connectors at claude.ai require a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise).
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Chat with AI and run tools instantly.
Browse all toolsFind papers on a topic
Topic discovery through work search before deeper reading.
Search OpenAlex for recent work on large language model interpretability, list the strongest matches with titles and authors, and note publication years.
Look up one paper
Single-work lookup when you already have a DOI or OpenAlex ID.
Pull OpenAlex metadata for the paper with DOI 10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762 — title, authors, abstract, and open-access links in plain language.
Map who cites a landmark study
Citation expansion for literature reviews and impact scans.
Find Attention Is All You Need in OpenAlex, then list papers that cite it and group the citing work by theme.
Build a reading list
Combines search, metadata, and citation context into review material.
Search OpenAlex for transformer efficiency papers since 2023, fetch details for the top ten, and outline a literature review with gaps to explore.
What is OpenAlex MCP?
It lets AI agents in Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT search OpenAlex — an open catalog of scholarly works — retrieve paper metadata, and explore who cites whom after you add the server in MCPBundles.
Who is OpenAlex MCP for?
Researchers, grad students, and R&D teams running literature reviews, citation scans, and background research who want answers in chat instead of tab-hopping across discovery tools.
Can an agent explore citations from chat?
Yes. Search for a work, open its metadata, then list papers that cite it to map influence, find follow-on studies, or pressure-test a claim.
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OpenAlex Literature Review Workflows with AI
How AI agents can search OpenAlex, pull paper metadata, walk citation networks, and build reading lists for literature reviews without tab-hopping across discovery tools.
Domain knowledge for OpenAlex — workflow patterns, data models, and gotchas for your AI agent.
OpenAlex is an open catalog of the global research system. Search works, retrieve work metadata, and expand citations using an open citation graph.
Openalex Get Work
Fetch a single OpenAlex work by OpenAlex ID or DOI and return full metadata including referenced works and citation cou…
Openalex List Citations
List OpenAlex works that cite the given work ID (citation expansion).
Openalex Search Works
Search OpenAlex works (papers) and return metadata plus OpenAlex IDs.
It lets AI agents in Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT search OpenAlex — an open catalog of scholarly works — retrieve paper metadata, and explore who cites whom after you add the server in MCPBundles.
Researchers, grad students, and R&D teams running literature reviews, citation scans, and background research who want answers in chat instead of tab-hopping across discovery tools.
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Yes. Search for a work, open its metadata, then list papers that cite it to map influence, find follow-on studies, or pressure-test a claim.
Basic search works after you connect the server. For heavy daily use, add optional free access from OpenAlex settings in MCPBundles — OpenAlex includes a small daily allowance for registered users.
Add the MCPBundles server URL to your MCP client configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.). The URL format is: https://mcp.mcpbundles.com/bundle/openalex. Authentication is handled automatically.
OpenAlex provides 3 tools that can be called by AI agents, along with a SKILL.md that gives your AI agent domain knowledge about when and how to use them.
OpenAlex uses open data APIs — no authentication required.
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