Openalex MCP Server

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Works with Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

npx agentmarket install connector/cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server

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What this server can do and what it asks for, from its tool list and install config. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

Tools

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Tools (5)

As the server listed them on Oct 25, 2026. Descriptions are the server’s own words; hidden characters are shown as [U+…].

• openalex_analyze_trendsOpenalex Analyze Trendsread-only

  Aggregate OpenAlex entities into groups and count them. Use for trend analysis (group works by publication_year), distribution analysis (group by oa_status, type, country), and comparative analysis (group by institution or topic). Combine with filters to scope the analysis. Returns up to 200 groups per page — use order "key" and cursor pagination for fields with many distinct values. OpenAlex can wrap a key-ordered walk to earlier groups. Stop when a page's first key repeats an earlier key, or when a page is short or empty.

• openalex_describe_fieldsOpenalex Describe Fieldsread-only

  List valid field names for an OpenAlex entity type and context (filter, group_by, or select). Use proactively before constructing a filter or group_by to avoid invalid-field 400 errors. Pass `query` to rank the list by name similarity — useful when you have a partial or guessed field name. Ranking never drops a field: the full list comes back either way.

• openalex_get_citation_graphOpenalex Get Citation Graphread-only

  Walk the citation graph one hop from a seed work. Direction picks the edge: incoming citations (`cites`), the seed's own references (`cited_by`), or OpenAlex's algorithmically-related works (`related_to`). Note: `direction` follows OpenAlex's filter convention, which inverts the common English reading — `cites` returns works that cite the seed; `cited_by` returns works the seed cites. Results use the works schema; combine with filters/sort to narrow further. Responses cap at 64,000 bytes per surface unless the least a call can return is larger (`over_budget`); `omitted` and `windows` give the …

• openalex_resolve_nameOpenalex Resolve Nameread-only

  Resolve a name or an identifier to an OpenAlex ID. ALWAYS use this before filtering by entity — names are ambiguous, IDs are not. A name returns up to 10 autocomplete matches with disambiguation hints. An identifier — OpenAlex ID, DOI, ORCID, ROR, PMID, or ISSN, bare or in URL form — resolves directly to the record it addresses instead of running a name search. Short names share the bare OpenAlex ID shape (keyword p53 reads as publisher ID P53), so a bare OpenAlex ID that resolves nothing is searched as a name next. Two identifiers can address more than one entity type: a ROR names an organiza…

• openalex_search_entitiesOpenalex Search Entitiesread-only

  Search, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders). Pass `id` to retrieve a single entity. Otherwise, use `query` and/or `filters` for discovery. Filters take a record object; an unambiguous native string such as "issn:0920-8542" is also accepted when enabled and disclosed in `notice`. Native clauses split on commas outside paired double quotes and the first colon; duplicate keys and bare fragments are rejected. Any filter value sent unquoted must have paired double quotes; balanced search phr…

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603

Last commit

Oct 23, 2026 (9 days ago)

Last release

Oct 29, 2026 (3 days ago)

Last package publish

Oct 23, 2026 (9 days ago)

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Details

Registry name

io.github.cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

Version

0.11.0

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Packages

npm @cyanheads/openalex-mcp-servernpm @cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

License

Apache-2.0

Repository

github.com/cyanheads/openalex-mcp-server

First seen

Oct 24, 2026

Last checked

Nov 1, 2026

Source

Official MCP Registrygithub-graphql