Connects Claude to OpenAlex's catalog of 270 million academic publications, authors, institutions, and topics. Exposes four tools: entity search with filters and pagination, trend aggregation for distribution analysis, name-to-ID resolution via autocomplete, and citation graph traversal in both directions. Also includes two structured prompts for literature reviews and research landscape analysis. Built on the author's mcp-ts-core framework with typed API clients, automatic ID normalization across DOI/ORCID/ROR/PMID formats, and abstract reconstruction from OpenAlex's inverted indices. Available as a public hosted instance at openalex.caseyjhand.com or self-hosted via npx. Useful for systematic literature searches, citation network analysis, tracking research trends, or resolving ambiguous author and institution names before filtering.
claude mcp add --transport stdio cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server uvx openalex-mcp-server