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Find Research Papers MCP Server

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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.

Installs per day peak 191 · avg 16 · -25% w/w
a month agotoday
21
Installs / week
npm · find-research-papers-mcp
6
Stars
0 open issues
3 Oct 2026
Last commit
6 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

In the project's build, not in the package

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.

Checks whether it runs in a sandbox papers_mcp/telemetry.py:213
            or os.path.exists("/.dockerenv")):
Runs an external command papers_mcp/telemetry.py:194
            out = subprocess.check_output(

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Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add find-research-papers-mcp -- npx -y find-research-papers-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.find-research-papers-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "find-research-papers-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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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Find Research Papers — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Find Research Papers?
Find Research Papers runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package find-research-papers-mcp was installed 21 times last week.
How do I connect Find Research Papers?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls find-research-papers-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Find Research Papers?
The npm package find-research-papers-mcp was installed 21 times in the last week. Week over week that is -25%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Find Research Papers open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 6 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.