CiteNexus runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 17 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": {
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.cite-nexus-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cite-nexus-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"cite-nexus-mcp": {
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"cite-nexus-mcp": {
"args": [
"cite-nexus-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
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).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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CiteNexus — questions
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