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Stanford CrossRef MCP. Track research impact and funding from any paper.

Stanford CrossRef MCP connects your AI agent to global academic metadata. It lets you resolve Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and retrieve full publication details, citation counts, and funding information for millions of scholarly works. Use this MCP to quickly assess research impact, track institutional output, or build comprehensive bibliographies without leaving your chat window.

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Resolving Full Paper Metadata

Provide any DOI and receive immediate details including the title, authors, journal name, publication date, and subject areas.

Assessing Research Influence

Determine how often a paper has been cited by other researchers or how many sources it cites itself.

Mapping Funding Sources

Search and retrieve lists of academic works tied to specific funding organizations, like the National Science Foundation.

Discovering Publication Details

Look up journals or publishers by ISSN or name to check their quality metrics, total output count, and coverage.

Finding Works by People or Institutions

Search for publications using a researcher's universal ORCID identifier or an institution's name like Harvard University.

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What AI agents can do with Stanford CrossRef MCP: 16 Tools for Scholars

Use these tools to query massive databases of scholarly works, retrieving everything from citation counts to complete bibliographies using structured data requests.

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Get Citations Count

Quickly determines how many other academic works have cited a specific DOI, helping assess its influence.

Get Funder Works

Retrieves all published articles linked to a specified funding organization ID...

Get Journal

Pulls comprehensive metrics on an academic journal by its ISSN, including total...

Get Journal Works

Finds articles published within a specific journal, optionally allowing filtering by...

Get Publisher

Gathers key metrics on an academic publisher, showing their total output count and...

Get Reference List

Extracts the complete bibliography or list of cited references from a given DOI, including authors and titles.

Resolve Doi

The primary tool that takes any DOI and returns all structured bibliographic information for that work.

Search By Affiliation

Locates academic works by searching using institutional names like 'MIT' or...

Search By Orcid

Finds a researcher’s entire publication history across all journals using their...

Search Funders

Lists and searches for major global funding organizations, such as the National...

Search Journals

Searches for academic journals by title or ISSN to gather metrics and identify...

Search Preprints

Finds early versions of research papers (preprints) registered across major preprint servers like bioRxiv.

Search Publishers

Lists and searches for academic publishers, providing their DOI prefixes and total body of work counts.

Search Recent Works

Monitors the stream of newly registered DOIs to keep track of the very latest...

Search Works

Searches through 150M+ academic works using advanced filters, sorting, and text...

Validate Doi

Confirms whether a DOI is active and registered in the system, providing basic...

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Stanford CrossRef MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

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Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

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Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

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Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Stanford CrossRef integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

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Sifting Through Academic Records is a Full-Time Job

Today, gathering comprehensive academic data feels like detective work. You start by pasting a DOI into one database for citations; then you have to switch to another site to check the journal's reputation using its ISSN. If you need to track who funded the research, you jump to yet a third portal, copying IDs and running multiple searches just to get a basic picture of the field.

With this MCP, your agent handles the complexity. You simply ask for the data point—like 'Give me all works by NIH on protein folding.' The result isn't three separate PDFs; it's one clean list with full metadata, ready for you to use immediately.

Get Full Bibliographic Records with Resolve DOI

The biggest time sink is the manual process of resolving a paper. You might copy an author's name and have no idea if they published under a different alias or institution, forcing you to start over. Checking every reference list manually for completeness is nearly impossible.

Now, using `resolve_doi` instantly structures all that information. It gives you the title, authors, journal, and date in one go. You stop guessing and start analyzing.

What Stanford CrossRef MCP does for your AI

This MCP gives your AI client access to the core infrastructure of academic publishing. Instead of visiting journal websites or using multiple databases, you connect once through Vinkius and gain immediate access to millions of scholarly records. You can resolve any DOI into complete bibliographic metadata, instantly identifying authors, journals, and publication dates.

Need to know how influential a paper is? You can retrieve citation counts directly. Want to track where the money comes from? The MCP finds works funded by specific organizations like the NIH or NSF. It also lets you search for publications based on institutional affiliations or even find preprints before they hit a journal.

This capability fundamentally changes research analysis, allowing your agent to build complex bibliographies and evaluate entire fields of study using structured data.

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Frequently asked questions about Stanford CrossRef MCP

How can I find all papers by a specific professor using Stanford CrossRef MCP? +

You use search_by_orcid. Providing the researcher's ORCID ID allows the MCP to pull every piece of published work linked to that unique identifier, regardless of which journal printed it.

Does Stanford CrossRef MCP include preprints from non-academic sources? +

No. However, you can use search_preprints to find DOIs registered with major preprint servers (like bioRxiv). This ensures you capture cutting-edge research before it enters formal journals.

What is the difference between searching by ISSN and using get_journal? +

Searching by search_journals helps you find the journal's metrics (like total output). Using get_journal then retrieves those specific, detailed quality flags and coverage percentages for a known ISSN.

Can I use Stanford CrossRef MCP to check if a DOI is real? +

Yes. Running validate_doi checks the system's registry. It tells you immediately if the identifier exists, and provides basic metadata if it passes validation.