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Academic Research Search MCP Server

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Academic Research Search is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Academic research search across PubMed and arXiv

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 80%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
447 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Academic Research Search every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add research --transport http https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.research]
url = "https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

arxiv
search_arxiv
Search arXiv preprint server for scientific papers. Best for CS, physics, math, and AI research.
citations
get_citations
Get paper citations and metadata via Crossref. Look up by DOI or search by topic.
pubmed
search_pubmed
Search PubMed biomedical literature database (NIH). Returns articles with titles, authors, journals, and links.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://research.memoryapi.org/mcp streamable-http answering 1298 ms 5 min ago

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Academic Research Search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Academic Research Search do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_citations, search_arxiv, search_pubmed. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Academic Research Search working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 447 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Academic Research Search?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Academic Research Search need an API key?
No. Academic Research Search completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Academic Research Search?
It answers our handshake in 447 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.