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CrossRef

CrossRef MCP Connector for Claude

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Search 140M+ scholarly works across all scientific disciplines — with DOI resolution, citation counts, author lookup, and full bibliographic metadata from the world's largest DOI registry.

3 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Give your AI agent direct access to the world's largest registry of scholarly metadata — 140M+ records spanning every DOI ever assigned across all scientific publishers.

What you can do

  • Universal Search — Find any published work across journals, books, conference papers, datasets, and dissertations using free-text queries
  • DOI Resolution — Instant metadata lookup for any DOI with title, complete author list, journal, year, type, and citation count
  • Author Discovery — Search for all publications by a specific researcher name across all major publishers simultaneously

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Start resolving DOIs and searching scholarly works immediately — no API key required

Who is this for?

  • Academic Researchers — resolve DOIs, verify citations, and build comprehensive bibliographies without leaving their AI assistant
  • Science Writers — instantly retrieve publication details to verify facts and cite sources accurately
  • Data Analysts — explore the scholarly landscape with citation metrics and publisher data for bibliometric analysis
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3 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

search_crossref_author

Returns their publications sorted by relevance with citation counts. Find publications by a specific author

get_crossref_doi

g. 10.1038/nature12373) and get complete metadata: title, all authors, journal, year, type, citation count, and abstract. Look up any scholarly work by its DOI

search_crossref

Every result includes DOI, citation count, and full bibliographic data. The world's largest DOI registry. Search 140M+ scholarly works across all scientific disciplines

See how to talk to your AI agent using CrossRef.

Look up the paper with DOI 10.1038/nature12373 and show me all its details.

Found: 'Sequence-specific antimicrobials using efficiently delivered RNA-guided nucleases' by David Bikard et al. Published in Nature Biotechnology (2014). Type: journal-article. Cited 682 times. This is a pioneering paper on using CRISPR-Cas9 for targeted antimicrobial applications. DOI resolves to the publisher page for full-text access.

Find all publications by Jennifer Doudna related to gene editing.

Found 10 works by Jennifer Doudna. Top results include her landmark 2012 Science paper 'A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity' (cited 15,000+ times), follow-up work on CRISPR applications in Nature, and reviews in Cell. Each entry includes DOI, journal, year, and full citation count.

Search CrossRef for the latest research on quantum computing error correction.

Found 10 relevant works. Highlights: 'Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit' in Nature (2023) — cited 320 times. Also found recent work from Google Quantum AI and IBM Research on topological error correction codes. All results include DOI, full author lists, and citation metrics.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique, permanent identifier assigned to every published scholarly work — like a social security number for academic papers. CrossRef maintains the world's largest DOI registry with 140M+ records, making it the authoritative source for bibliographic metadata across all publishers globally.

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