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OpenAlex

OpenAlex MCP Connector for Claude

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Access 250M+ scholarly works with open bibliometric data — search papers, authors, institutions, and trending research topics. The open-source alternative to Scopus and Web of Science.

5 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect your AI agent to the world's largest fully open catalog of scholarly works — a free, CC0-licensed replacement for enterprise platforms like Scopus and Web of Science.

What you can do

  • Works Search — Search 250M+ works with complete metadata including authors, institutional affiliations, citation counts, open access status, and reconstructed abstracts
  • Author Profiles — Find researchers worldwide with publication counts, total citations, h-index metrics, and current institutional affiliation
  • Institution Discovery — Explore the research output of universities, labs, hospitals, and government agencies globally with full bibliometric data
  • Research Trends — Discover the most researched scientific topics ranked by total number of published works to understand where the scientific community is focusing
  • Open Access Detection — Every work indicates its open access status (green, gold, hybrid, bronze) for instant full-text availability assessment

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your OpenAlex API key (free — create an account at openalex.org)
  3. Start exploring 250M+ scholarly works from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Academic Researchers — run comprehensive bibliometric analyses without expensive Scopus or Web of Science subscriptions
  • University Librarians — monitor institutional research output, track citation metrics, and identify collaboration opportunities
  • Science Policy Analysts — analyze global research trends, funding impacts, and institutional performance across countries and disciplines
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5 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_openalex_trending_topics

Essential for understanding globalThis research trends. Discover the most researched scientific topics and concepts globally

get_openalex_work

Accepts OpenAlex ID (e.g. W2741809809 or full URL) or DOI (e.g. 10.1038/nature12373). Get full details of an academic work by OpenAlex ID or DOI

search_openalex_authors

Returns works count, total citations, h-index, current institution, and top research concepts. Find researchers with publication metrics, h-index, and institutional affiliations

search_openalex_institutions

Returns publication counts, citation metrics, country, and top research areas. Covers universities, research labs, hospitals, and government agencies globally. Find research institutions, universities, and organizations worldwide

search_openalex_works

Returns title, authors with institutional affiliations, journal, year, citation count, open access status, concepts, and reconstructed abstracts. CC0 licensed data. Search 250M+ academic works in the world's largest open scholarly database

See how to talk to your AI agent using OpenAlex.

Which institutions publish the most research on quantum computing worldwide?

Top institutions for quantum computing: MIT (2,400+ works, 180K citations), Stanford University (1,800+ works), University of Waterloo (1,500+ works), ETH Zurich (1,200+ works), and Google DeepMind (800+ works). Each result includes citation metrics, country code, and top research concepts.

Search for Geoffrey Hinton and show me his publication metrics and affiliations.

Found: Geoffrey Hinton — University of Toronto / Google Brain. Works: 650+, Citations: 750,000+, h-index: 183. Top concepts: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence. His most cited work: 'ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks' (2012) with 120,000+ citations.

What are the most researched scientific topics globally right now?

Top 5 research topics by published works: 1) Medicine (45M+ works, 1.2B citations), 2) Biology (35M+ works), 3) Chemistry (30M+ works), 4) Computer Science (20M+ works), 5) Physics (18M+ works). At the granular level, trending sub-topics include: Large Language Models, mRNA therapeutics, CRISPR applications, and climate modeling.

Yes, the API key is completely free. OpenAlex provides 100,000 credits per day at no cost. Create your free account at openalex.org, then navigate to Settings → API to generate your key. The key is required since February 2026 when OpenAlex retired the 'polite pool' system.

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