Orcid

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Search ORCID researcher profiles, retrieve works, and export citations

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Overview

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Lets an assistant search ORCID researcher profiles, read their works, and export citations in RIS or BibTeX.

What you can do
Provides tools to search the ORCID registry by name, affiliation, keyword, DOI, or advanced Solr query, read a researcher's full profile including bio, employment, education, and keywords, and retrieve their publications. It can also export retrieved works as RIS or BibTeX for reference managers such as Zotero or EndNote. It is built on the ORCID Public API v3.0.
When to use it
Useful when you need to look up researchers, verify affiliations, gather publication lists, or produce citation files for a bibliography. It fits literature reviews, collaboration checks, and reference-manager workflows.
Requirements
Runs locally as a Python process, typically installed with uvx or a virtual environment. Requires ORCID API credentials supplied as the environment variables ORCID_CLIENT_ID and ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET, plus network access to the ORCID API. Desktop only.
Before you install
Requires the secret credentials ORCID_CLIENT_ID and ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET, which should be stored in configuration rather than shared. It reads public ORCID data and exports files; no write, send, or delete actions are described.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Orcid in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

ORCID MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides tools for searching the ORCID registry, reading researcher profiles, retrieving publications, and exporting citations in RIS and BibTeX formats.

Built with FastMCP and the ORCID Public API v3.0.

Tools

ToolDescription
orcid_searchSearch for researchers by name, affiliation, keyword, DOI, or advanced Solr query
orcid_read_recordRead a researcher's full profile (bio, employment, education, keywords)
orcid_read_worksGet publications from a researcher's ORCID record
orcid_export_risExport retrieved works as RIS (for Zotero, EndNote, etc.)
orcid_export_bibtexExport retrieved works as BibTeX

Setup

1. Get ORCID API credentials

Register for free public API credentials at ORCID Developer Tools.

2. Install

bash
cd orcid-mcp-serverpython3 -m venv venvsource venv/bin/activatepip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure environment

Copy the example env file and add your credentials:

bash
cp .env.example .env# Edit .env with your ORCID_CLIENT_ID and ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET

4. Add to Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "orcid-mcp": {      "command": "/path/to/orcid-mcp-server/venv/bin/python",      "args": ["/path/to/orcid-mcp-server/server.py"],      "env": {        "ORCID_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",        "ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret"      }    }  }}

Or if using Claude Code CLI:

bash
claude mcp add orcid-mcp \  /path/to/orcid-mcp-server/venv/bin/python \  /path/to/orcid-mcp-server/server.py \  -e ORCID_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id \  -e ORCID_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret

Usage examples

Once connected, you can ask Claude things like:

  • "Search ORCID for researchers at Northwestern University working on machine learning"
  • "Look up the ORCID profile for 0000-0002-1825-0097"
  • "Get the publications for this researcher and export them as RIS for Zotero"

License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit 26bb2f5

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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