# OpenAlex Author Disambiguation MCP Server

> Use this tool when you need to streamline academic research and author disambiguation, as it provides optimized access to the OpenAlex.org API for searching authors, resolving institutional affiliations, and retrieving scholarly works with citation metrics. It solves problems of ambiguous author identities and incomplete publication data, supporting use cases such as researcher profiling and bibliometric analysis. It takes in search queries and author identifiers as inputs and returns detailed author information and publication data as outputs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/drabreu-alex-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/drabreu-alex-mcp

## Description

Enables streamlined academic research and author disambiguation by providing AI agents with optimized access to the OpenAlex.org API. It supports searching for authors, resolving institutional affiliations, and retrieving scholarly works with detailed citation metrics.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.72
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/ne3r4gfgzz)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/drAbreu/alex-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": "drabreu-alex-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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