Find Research Papers runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 21 installs a week from npm. Last commit 3 Oct 2026.
Search open-source research papers across arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar.
We read the source, 5 d ago · rules 995398eba69f
Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.
or os.path.exists("/.dockerenv")):
out = subprocess.check_output(
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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 find-research-papers-mcp -- npx -y find-research-papers-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"find-research-papers-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"find-research-papers-mcp"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.find-research-papers-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "find-research-papers-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"find-research-papers-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"find-research-papers-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"find-research-papers-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"find-research-papers-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY (Semantic Scholar API key. Without it, the shared rate pool may 429 (source is skipped, never a crash)).
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