Search arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.
Phở Research Tools is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
What it does
Checks AI-written references against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. Formats citations, PRISMA.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http pho-research-tools-mcp https://mcp.pho.chat/mcp
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# verify_references, format_citations, search_papers and 2 more
Phở Research Tools costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine and nothing runs on ours: this server answers at its publisher’s own address, and what you install is the connection straight to it.
This is a public server: it answers at its publisher’s own address and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The transport below is http, as the publisher's own manifest declares it.
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http pho-research-tools-mcp https://mcp.pho.chat/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
One config entry pointing straight at the publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path, and nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
5 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
Check every reference in a list against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex and report, for each one, whether the paper really exists and whether the details are right. Works on lists written by a person or generated by an AI model. Input: a pasted reference list in any common style (APA, Vancouver, numbered, mixed), BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, or one DOI per line. Each reference gets exactly one status: ver
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| references | string | yes | The reference list exactly as written: any citation style, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, or DOIs one per line. |
Format references in a citation style (APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, AMA) or export them as BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. By default every reference is first verified against Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex, and verified references are formatted from the database record, so wrong years, pages or author names in the input are corrected. References that could not be verified
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| references | string | yes | References in any form: a pasted list in any style, BibTeX, RIS, CSL-JSON, or DOIs one per line. |
| style | string | no | Citation style: apa (APA 7), mla (MLA 9), chicago (Chicago author-date), harvard (Harvard), vancouver (Vancouver), ieee (IEEE), ama (AMA). Ignored for bibtex/ris/csl-json output. |
| output | string | no | text (plain bibliography), html, bibtex, ris or csl-json. |
| verify | boolean | no | Verify each reference before formatting (recommended). When false, references are formatted exactly as given, without corrections. |
Search PubMed and OpenAlex for real papers. Every result carries a DOI or PubMed ID that resolves, so nothing returned can be fabricated. Finds sources for a claim or a topic. Filters: publication year range, open-access only, study types, and the number of results. Retracted papers are left out by default. Preprints are included and marked preprint: true (not peer reviewed). Results are ranked
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | What to look for, in English keywords (e.g. "sepsis early antibiotics mortality"). |
| year_from | integer | no | Earliest publication year, inclusive. |
| year_to | integer | no | Latest publication year, inclusive. |
| open_access_only | boolean | no | Only papers with a free, legal full text. |
| study_types | array | no | Study designs. Known ids use database filters: rct, clinical-trial, systematic-review, meta-analysis, review, guideline, cohort, case-control, case-report, observational. Any other text is added as ke |
| max_results | integer | no | Number of results, 1–50. |
| include_retracted | boolean | no | Keep retracted papers (flagged) instead of leaving them out. |
Check DOIs for retractions, expressions of concern and corrections, using Crossref (which includes Retraction Watch data). Status per DOI: retracted, concern, corrected, other_notice, no_notice (nothing on record), not_in_crossref, invalid_doi, rate_limited or lookup_failed (the DOI could not be checked, which is not a clean result). Works for a single paper or a whole reference list.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| dois | array | yes | DOIs, bare (10.1000/xyz) or as https://doi.org/ links. |
Draw a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram for a new systematic review from the record counts, as a PNG image plus an SVG and download links. Give the counts you have; boxes that follow arithmetically from others are filled in and marked as derived. The tool checks that the numbers add up (records identified minus removed equals screened, and so on) and returns a warning naming each box that does not, with t
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| counts | object | yes | — |
| other_methods_column | boolean | no | Force the other-methods column on or off. Default: drawn when otherMethods counts are given. |
| footnotes | boolean | no | Print the template footnotes and source attribution. |
- Every tool — any call limit is its publisher’s, not ours
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Runs at its publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Phở Research Tools or to call it, at any volume.
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
This listing is an address its publisher runs, and you connect to it directly — this marketplace is not in the path. The scanner reads packages and public source, and an address is neither. So there is no grade — not a withheld one, an unmeasured one.
Release history
This is an address its publisher runs: which release it serves is theirs to choose, so there is nothing here to pin. The history below is for reading; the current release on file is 1.0.1.
No release note was published with this version.
One review per account, from a signed-in account that does not publish this listing. Nothing else is asked — you can say what you think before you install it. Publishers can reply once per review, and a review can be edited or deleted by whoever wrote it.
Any signed-in account that does not publish Phở Research Tools can review it, once — before installing it or after. A review from an account that has installed it is marked as one.
Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes a signed-in account that does not publish it, and nothing else.