academic-search

academic-search 0.8.0

MCP Server for multi-provider academic search (Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed) with regex filtering and statistics

pip install academic-search

Academic Search MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for searching, filtering, and exploring academic papers across multiple databases, with citation graph walking.

Providers: Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed

Features

• Multi-provider search — unified interface across 4 academic databases
• Universal regex filtering — regex post-filtering on all providers (not just Semantic Scholar)
• Rich post-hoc filters — year range, citation count, journal, publication type, open access, author
• Citation graph walk — random walk on the Semantic Scholar citation graph with backtracking, cross-edge detection, and topic-aware pruning
• Text similarity — pure-Python TF cosine similarity for topic drift detection and most-similar candidate selection (no heavy dependencies)
• Stats — per-query metadata on authors, years, and field coverage
• Normalised output — all providers return data in the same schema

Tools

search_papers

Search papers by keyword with optional regex post-filtering on title and abstract.

Parameters: query, search_type, limit, regex_filter, regex_search_fields, match_mode, year_min, year_max, min_citation_count, max_citation_count, open_access_only, has_pdf, journal, exclude_journals, publication_types, exclude_publication_types, author, has_abstract, provider

search_by_author

Find papers by author name with the same post-hoc filters.

explore_citations

Walk the Semantic Scholar citation graph step by step, starting from a seed paper.

Parameter	Default	Description
seed_paper_id	(required)	S2 paper ID
num_steps	30	Max walk length
max_depth	None	Max hops from seed before forced backtrack
direction_choice	"random"	"forward", "backward", "alternating", or "random"
bias	"random"	"top_cited", "bottom_cited", "most_similar", or "random"
candidates_per_step	100	Candidates per API call
stop_similarity	None	0.0–1.0 topic drift threshold

Includes the same post-hoc filters as search_papers.

get_paper_stats

Fetch papers and compute statistics: field availability, author counts, publication year distributions.

build_extended_query

Preview how a regex pattern gets transformed for a given provider's API.

Usage

Via uvx (recommended)

uvx academic-search

Via uv run

uv run --with academic-search academic-search

From source

git clone ... cd academic-search uv run academic-search

With Claude Desktop

{ "mcpServers": { "academic-search": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["academic-search"] } } }

Development

uv sync uv run academic-search

Providers

Provider	Citation graph	Notes
Semantic Scholar	Yes	Full citation/reference graph endpoints, citation counts
Crossref	No	Good DOI coverage, no OA metadata
OpenAlex	No	Best OA metadata, abstracts from inverted index
PubMed	No	NIH literature

Design Notes

• query and regex_filter are separate — the API query is plain text; regex filtering is a post-hoc step on all providers
• Citation walk is a true graph walk — one step at a time, not bucket collection. Uses backtracking, cross-edge recording, and per-step filtering
• Caching — API responses for (paper_id, direction) are cached per walk to avoid redundant fetches during backtracking
• Text similarity — pure-Python TF cosine similarity (no sentence-transformers); used for most_similar bias and stop_similarity pruning
• No API key required — all providers have free tiers, but Semantic Scholar rate limits are ~1 req/5s without a key. Set S2_API_KEY for up to 100 req/s

Key dates

PyPI data

Data sourced directly from PyPI's database.

• Released: Aug 5, 2026 Latest release

1 maintainer

PyPI data

aufildelanuit

Credits

Author: Yohann

License

MIT

Requires

Python >=3.10

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