@cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

Name: @cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server
Author: Casey Hand (https://caseyjhand.com)

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v0.8.0Casey Hand (https://caseyjhand.com)Apache-2.0Updated 4d agonpm GitHub

Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.

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checked 5 days ago · 230ms

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ClaudeCursorCopilotChatGPTGemini

Inferred from the transports this listing declares (stdio, streamable-http). A client not listed here hasn’t been ruled out — it just isn’t something Forge can confirm.

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683Downloads/wk

14GitHub stars

5Forks

4d agoLast update

Reads these credentials

OPENALEX_API_KEYAPI keyoptional
OpenAlex account API key, sent as api_key= - optional (free from https://openalex.org/settings/api). Without it, anonymous rate limits apply.

Declared by the author in the official MCP registry. Forge does not store, broker, or ever see these values — the config below is scaffolded with placeholders you fill in locally.

Package

AuthorCasey Hand (https://caseyjhand.com)

LicenseApache-2.0

Version0.8.0

Sourcenpm+mcp-registry

npm@cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

GitHubcyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

SBOMCycloneDX 1.6 ↓

Trust Status

60/100Good

✓Listed in Forge index+10/10

—Publisher identity verified+0/20

→ Publisher: run `forge publish` from the package repo to claim ownership

—Ed25519 publish signature+0/5

→ Included automatically when the publisher runs `forge publish`

—Domain verification+0/5

→ Publisher: host /.well-known/forge.json on the package homepage with { "publisher": "<github-login>" }

—npm Trusted Publishing (Sigstore)+0/5

→ Publish from GitHub Actions with --provenance so the attestation binds this package to this repo

—npm maintainer match+0/5

→ Earned once your identity is verified above and that login is an npm maintainer of this package

✓CVE scan · clean+30/30

✓Static analysis · clean+20/20

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StatusCommunity-indexed

PublisherUnverified

SignatureUnsigned

Domain—

Provenance—

Dependencies✓ 60 resolved+ · none vulnerable

Tool surface1 tool · none privileged

Security scan✓ Cleanv0.7.1 · 3mo agoHow well does this scan work?

EvalsNone

IndexedJun 12, 2026

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Tools

1 tool · none privileged

Statically extracted from the published packagev0.7.1 · 3mo ago

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openalex-mcp-serverNo description published

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0 of 1 tools published a description.

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Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.

Keywords

mcpmcp-servermodel-context-protocolopenalexacademic-researchacademic-searchbibliometricsbuncitation-analysisliterature-searchscholarly-datascholarly-researchstdiostreamable-httptypescript

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