Research MCP Servers

Papers, datasets, citations and the tools for reading a field rather than a file. 1,800 Research MCP servers on Mcprush.

1,800 MCP servers

Scanned where there is a package or repository to read — the grade is on each server's page
Research

Search arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.

2.7k/day 19 tools
Free

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.

872/day
Free

Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.

816/day 55 tools
Free

Budgeted research with cited evidence and visible payment state on the selected Arc network.

378/day
Free

Model Context Protocol server for Semantic Scholar — 200M+ academic papers, 14 tools spanning paper search, citation graph traversal

362/day 14 tools
Free

A MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources.

357/day 63 tools
Free

A Node.js MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources, including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Web of Science

284/day
Free

Catch AI-fabricated citations (real DOI + fake title). Retraction, open-access, 10,000+ CSL styles.

263/day
Free

Verify claims against sources: source verification, citation checking; $0.02 USDC on Base.

197/day 1 tool
Free

Deep research assistant that checks its citations against the sources and keeps what it found.

196/day
Free

Protein research over UniProtKB — search by function, fetch curated records, map IDs, proteomes.

181/day
Free

Prepare private research drafts for your review in Papex and read public Papex records.

170/day 23 tools
Free

Search your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.

162/day 3 tools
Free

Search Wikipedia, arXiv, SEC EDGAR, US Census, USDA, PyPI and more through one Dataville API.

147/day 4 tools
Free

AI forecasting for your AI: probabilities, dates, and numbers with a public track record.

146/day 21 tools
Free

Local stdio MCP server for PubMed with 10 tools: search, fetch, fetch_batch, get_full_text, count, find_similar_articles, export_to_ris

136/day 10 tools
Free

Research MCP servers on mcprush, filed under one heading so the shelf can be read in one pass.

Every server here names the publisher behind it and whether that publisher has been verified, the runtime it uses, how it authenticates, the tool surface it exposes and the price model it is sold under — and where a security scan has been run against it, what the scan found. The filters on the left narrow it further and the sort at the top decides what comes first.

Nearly every server in this catalogue is connected straight to its publisher: the listing gives the publisher’s own address or start command, and mcprush is not in the path, so nothing is routed, metered or billed here. The exception is a server delivered through the mcprush gateway — there one key covers everything installed against your account, the calls are metered where you can see them and the ceiling on what they may cost is yours to set, and installing it is a line of the mcprush CLI: npx mcprush@latest add, followed by the server’s id. The listing says which of the two it is before you install anything.

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