scholar-mcp

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server package intended to provide “scholar”/academic research capabilities to an MCP-capable agent. Provides a programmatic interface for research-oriented tools (exact endpoints/tools not provided in the prompt content).

Evaluated Mar 30, 2026 (0d ago)
Repo ↗ Ai Ml mcp research scholar developer-tools ai-agents
⚙ Agent Friendliness
43
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
41
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
25
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
45
Documentation
40
Error Messages
0
Auth Simplicity
60
Rate Limits
20

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
60
Auth Strength
30
Scope Granularity
20
Dep. Hygiene
50
Secret Handling
50

No concrete security implementation details (TLS enforcement for outbound/inbound, auth scheme, scope model, or secret-handling guidance) were provided in the prompt content, so scores are conservative. If the server fetches external resources, ensure SSRF protections, safe URL handling, and least-privilege access to any required API keys.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
0
Version Stability
40
Breaking Changes
30
Error Recovery
30
AF Security Reliability

Use Cases

  • • Academic literature lookup and research workflows via MCP agents
  • • Summarization and extraction of information from scholarly sources (as exposed by the MCP tools)
  • • Building agentic research pipelines that need a standardized tool interface

Not For

  • • Production systems needing a documented, stable REST/SDK interface
  • • Environments requiring strict data residency or compliance guarantees (not evidenced here)
  • • Use as a general-purpose knowledge base without the specific scholarly tool capabilities

Interface

REST API
No
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
Yes
SDK
No
Webhooks
No

Authentication

OAuth: No Scopes: No

No authentication details provided in the prompt content; MCP tools commonly run locally or behind a host process, but this cannot be confirmed from the provided data.

Pricing

Free tier: No
Requires CC: No

Agent Metadata

Pagination
none
Idempotent
False
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • ⚠ Because tool list/behavior is not provided here, agents may need to handle unknown input/output schemas and possible network failures themselves.
  • ⚠ If the MCP server performs outbound calls to third-party scholar sources, agents should expect rate limits and intermittent availability (no evidence provided here about retry/backoff semantics).

Alternatives

Direct use of scholarly APIs (e.g., Crossref, Semantic Scholar APIs) where available Custom scraping/ingestion pipelines paired with a vector database Other MCP server packages focused on web search or academic sources

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.

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