Academic Research MCP — arXiv & Scholar for AI Agents

MCP server exposing arXiv and OpenAlex/Crossref paper search (an open Google Scholar alternative — Scholar itself is not queried) as agent tools: titles, authors, citation counts, DOIs, links. Connect Claude, Cursor, n8n or the OpenAI Agents SDK. $0.02 per successful tool call.

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Price / 1k$20.00per 1,000 tool-call

Users / 30d11↑ 2 over 30 readings

Users, all time50↑ 5 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d846↑ 734 over 30 readings

Runs / user / mo76.9runs per monthly user

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2026-10-24contentREADME updated-57 characters-57characters
2026-09-30searchKeyword rank moveentered top-3 for “arxiv” (outside top 100 → #2)—on record
2026-09-30searchKeyword rank moveleft top-10 for “for agents” (#10 → outside top 100)—on record

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Users, all time30 readings

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Standing30 readings

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#	Actor	Grade	Price / 1k	Users /30d	Success	Rating	Age	Fresh
1	Academic Research MCP — arXiv & Scholar for AI Agentsnexgendata	B	EVT$20.00 /1k tool-call	1150 total	99.4%	—	8m	fresh	This
2	ArXiv Preprint Paper Searchryanclinton	—	EVT$2.00 /1k paper-fetched	939 total	—	—	9m	aging
3	ArXiv Paper Searchgentle_cloud	—	FREEfree	522 total	—	—	7m	stale
4	arXiv Paper Scraper — AI Research, Abstracts & PDF Linksbovi	—	EVT$1.90 /1k paper-item	45 total	—	—	5m	fresh
5	arXiv Paper Scraper - AI Research Trackerarjunannamalai	—	RES$1.00 /1k	23 total	—	—	4m	aging
6	arXiv Research Trackerc4m3r0n808	—	EVT$50.00 /1k primary	23 total	—	—	4m	aging

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