# OpenAlex MCP

> OpenAlex MCP — deyangliu123-openalex-mcp. Use this tool when you need to search and retrieve scholarly information, resolve author and venue identities, or analyze citation graphs. It solves problems related to academic research, paper discovery, and metadata management by providing access to paper metadata, citation data, and guarded full-text downloads. The tool accepts search queries and API requests as inputs and returns relevant metadata, citation graphs, and resolved author and venue information as outputs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/deyangliu123-openalex-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/deyangliu123-openalex-mcp

## Description

Enables scholarly search, paper metadata, citation graphs, author and venue resolution, candidate harvesting, API quota visibility, and guarded full-text downloads through the OpenAlex API.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.68
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-30

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/eqqcr851fz)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/DeyangLiu123/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": "deyangliu123-openalex-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/deyangliu123-openalex-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/deyangliu123-openalex-mcp/pull`

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