# OpenAlex MCP

> OpenAlex MCP — carsten-streb-openalex-mcp. Use this tool when you need to search and explore a vast index of scholarly works, authors, and institutions. It solves problems related to academic research, citation tracking, and grant discovery by providing access to a massive database of 250M+ records. The tool accepts search queries as input and returns relevant results, making it ideal for use cases such as research paper exploration, author profiling, and funding opportunity identification.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/carsten-streb-openalex-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/carsten-streb-openalex-mcp

## Description

An MCP server for searching and exploring OpenAlex's index of 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, journals, funders, and grants through Claude.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.65
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/s8rpub96f3)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/carsten-streb/openalex-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "carsten-streb-openalex-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/carsten-streb-openalex-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/carsten-streb-openalex-mcp/pull`

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