Academic Research Mcp Server

A local MCP server that lets an assistant search arXiv, Google Scholar and Wikipedia and look up paper metadata and citation metrics via Apify.

What you can do

Search arXiv for academic papers and retrieve results through Apify actors. Search Google Scholar for academic papers. Search Wikipedia for articles. Look up detailed metadata for a specific paper. Retrieve citation metrics for a paper or an author.

When to use it

Useful when you want an assistant to gather academic literature, check citation counts, or pull background articles while researching a topic, without opening each site yourself.

Requirements

Runs locally over stdio, typically launched with npx or installed globally with npm, so Node.js is needed. It forwards requests to an Apify endpoint; the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable is optional, and without it the public endpoint is used with rate limits. Desktop client configuration is required.