Papers MCP v1.1.0

Academic Paper Discovery for AI

An MCP server for searching, extracting, and exploring academic papers. Powered by arXiv and Google Scholar.

5 Tools · arXiv · Google Scholar
Tools
resolve-arxiv-id Search arXiv by title, author, or Lucene query to resolve paper IDs arXiv
extract-paper Extract full paper content as clean Markdown with math notation arXiv
search-papers Citation-ranked paper search with venue and year filters Google Scholar
find-citing-papers Find papers that cite a given paper by cluster ID Google Scholar
find-related-papers Find topically related papers by paper ID Google Scholar
Get Started
Add to your MCP client
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "papers-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP clients. For search-papers, find-citing-papers, and find-related-papers, add "env": { "BRIGHTDATA_API_TOKEN": "..." } to the server config.