CiteNexus runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 91 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 23 Sep 2026.
Search scholarly sources, verify references, and export citations with traceable evidence.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check CiteNexus every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add cite-nexus-mcp -- uvx cite-nexus-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"cite-nexus-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
]
}
}
}[mcp_servers.cite-nexus-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cite-nexus-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"cite-nexus-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
]
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"cite-nexus-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
]
}
}
}Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
CITE_NEXUS_CONTACT_EMAIL (Optional Crossref polite-pool contact email), SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY (Optional Semantic Scholar account key), OPENALEX_API_KEY (Key for explicitly selected OpenAlex queries; account credits apply), SERPAPI_API_KEY (Key for explicitly selected commercial Google Scholar queries), SCOPUS_API_KEY (Key for explicitly selected Scopus queries; entitlement required), SCOPUS_INSTTOKEN (Optional Scopus institutional token), WOS_API_KEY (Key for explicitly selected Web of Science Starter queries), UNPAYWALL_EMAIL (Optional email for Unpaywall open-access enrichment).
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CiteNexus — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.