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Stanford OpenAlex MCP. Map the entire academic knowledge graph.

Stanford OpenAlex gives you open access to the global research catalog. It lets you analyze over 250 million academic works and trace connections between authors, institutions, concepts, and funding bodies worldwide. Check a researcher's full impact profile, map out scientific concept hierarchies, or find every paper funded by a specific organization.

Stanford OpenAlex MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Stanford OpenAlex MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Stanford OpenAlex MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Stanford OpenAlex MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Assess Academic Impact

Retrieve detailed profiles for authors, including their total citation count, h-index, i10-index, and historical publication trends.

Map Research Connections

Explore how scientific concepts relate to one another by viewing the concept hierarchy or tracing related research areas.

Analyze Funding Streams

Determine which specific organizations fund research, allowing you to map funding sources against academic topics.

Deep Dive into Works

Get comprehensive details on any paper using its DOI, OpenAlex ID, or PubMed ID, including abstracts and citation information.

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What AI agents can do with Stanford OpenAlex: 16 Tools for Academic Data

Use these specific tools to query the massive catalog directly, whether you need an author's impact score or a journal's citation count.

Make your AI actually useful.

Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Get Author

Retrieves a scholar's full profile, including citation count, h-index, i10-index, and publication trends over time.

Get Author Works

Lists all papers written by a specific author, letting you sort the results by most...

Get Concept

Provides detailed information on scientific concepts, including their ancestors and...

Get Funder

Shows which organizations fund specific research areas along with statistical...

Get Institution

Gathers detailed metrics for a university or lab, including its overall research...

Get Source

Evaluates the quality of journals or conferences by retrieving their impact metrics and coverage details.

Get Work

Fetches a paper's title, abstract, authors, and citation count using its DOI, OpenAlex ID, or PubMed ID.

Search Authors

Searches the database of over 90 million authors by name and filters results based...

Search Concepts

Finds specific scientific concepts within the knowledge hierarchy, showing...

Search Funders

Searches for funding organizations worldwide, detailing their grants count, funded...

Search Institutions

Finds research institutions across the globe by name or filters them by type...

Search Open Access

Filters all available works to show only papers that have freely accessible PDFs for reading and meta-analysis.

Search Publishers

Analyzes the academic publishing market by listing major publishers, their country of origin, and citation counts.

Search Sources

Searches over 240,000 journals and conferences, providing details like ISSNs and...

Search Topics

Maps the entire landscape of science by searching topic classifications across all...

Search Works

Performs a full-text search or structured filter on 250 million works, allowing...

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Stanford OpenAlex 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.

3

Start a conversation

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

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Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

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Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
  • Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
  • Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
  • Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
  • Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
  • Publish to catalog or keep private
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Start with Stanford OpenAlex, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
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  • Track usage and costs across all your servers
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The Pain of Manual Academic Due Diligence

Right now, proving the impact or lineage of an idea is a nightmare. You start by Googling papers, then jump to CrossRef to get the DOI, then open a university website just to check if that author is still affiliated there, and finally, you cross-reference funding data from another dashboard. It's copy-pasting metadata across five different tabs just to build one citation graph.

With this MCP, your agent does it all in one query. You ask for the full picture—the author metrics, the linked concepts, and the primary source—and you get a single, structured data response. It's instant due diligence.

Using Stanford OpenAlex to Pinpoint Impact

The tedious steps of cross-checking publication years against institutional affiliations or manually verifying the open access status are gone. You run a search and get all that data simultaneously.

Your workflow changes from manual information retrieval to focused analysis. You stop collecting data points, and you start building arguments.

What Stanford OpenAlex MCP does for your AI

Working with modern academic research means dealing with massive datasets—millions of papers, thousands of institutions, and complex citation graphs. This MCP connects you directly to the OpenAlex API, giving your AI client deep access to this global knowledge catalog. You don't need an API key because OpenAlex is free and open.

Instead of manually hopping between Google Scholar, university websites, and journal portals, you ask your agent to do the heavy lifting. You can profile a scholar using metrics like h-index or i10-index; check which organizations are funding specific fields of study; or narrow down papers that have been published under open access licenses.

It's the power of having all the academic world’s metadata available in one place, accessible through Vinkius and your preferred AI client.

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Frequently asked questions about Stanford OpenAlex MCP

How do I use Stanford OpenAlex for citation metrics? +

Use the get_author tool. This retrieves a scholar’s full profile, including their total citation count, h-index, and i10-index, giving you immediate impact assessment.

Can I find out who is funding a specific research topic using Stanford OpenAlex? +

Yes, use get_funder or search_funders. These tools map funding organizations to specific research areas, allowing you to trace the financial backing of science.

What is the best way to find open access papers with Stanford OpenAlex? +

The dedicated search_open_access tool filters all works and returns only those academic papers that have freely available PDFs, saving you time on paywalls.

How do I compare multiple universities' research output using Stanford OpenAlex? +

Use search_institutions to find the schools. Then, for a direct comparison of metrics across them, run get_institution on each one you want to benchmark.

Does Stanford OpenAlex cover patents or just academic papers? +

It covers works that include papers, books, datasets, and patents. Use the search_works tool with specific filters if you are looking for a particular type of output.