Find Research Papers MCP Server

Name: Find Research Papers MCP Server
Author: io.github.surendranb

io.github.surendranb/find-research-papers-mcp

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What is the Find Research Papers MCP server?

Search open-source research papers across arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar.

How to install Find Research Papers

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY
secret
Semantic Scholar API key. Without it, the shared rate pool may 429 (source is skipped, never a crash).

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "find-research-papers-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "find-research-papers-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add find-research-papers-mcp --env FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY=<YOUR_FIND_RESEARCH_PAPERS_MCP_S2_API_KEY> -- npx -y find-research-papers-mcp

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