Best Academic AI Skills & MCP Servers
23 curated Academic skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
Arxiv
Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Openalex
Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP. STDIO & Streamable HTTP.
Arxiv
An arXiv MCP server for searching and retrieving academic papers.
Axiom Data
Financial & research data MCP server — SEC filings, DeFi analytics, wallet profiling, academic papers, US macro data, patent search, token sentiment. 30 tools for AI agents.
Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Crossref
MCP server for searching academic papers, journals, and citations via the Crossref API
Grados
The enrichment-grade MCP server for academic paper search and full-text extraction. For science.
Paper Search Agent
MCP server for paper-search-agent: academic paper discovery, access planning, and full-text retrieval via campus network
Openalex
MCP server for accessing scholarly articles and research data from the OpenAlex database
Openalex
MCP server for scholarly works, authors, and institutions via OpenAlex API
Oksure Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Paper Search Nodejs
A Node.js MCP server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources, including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Web of Science, and more.
Sciverse
Sciverse MCP server — exposes academic paper retrieval (search_papers / semantic_search / read_content) to MCP-compatible coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, ...).
Scholar Sidekick
MCP server for Scholar Sidekick — resolve any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, ADS, WHO IRIS) into 10,000+ CSL styles or nine export formats, single or batch, plus retraction (Crossref / Retraction Watch), open-access (Unpaywall)
Litra Paper Search
MCP server for Litra.ai – AI-powered academic paper search with relevance scoring and summarization
Marp
MCP server for Marp presentation management with custom theme support
Server
MCP server for querying Catalan public open data — 2,991+ datasets from 14 portals (incl. CORA academic research)
Lune
Lune Research MCP server (stdio + Streamable HTTP) proxying api.luneresearch.com
Call-for-papers
The verified hub for conferences and journals. Powered by AI to match your scholarly ambitions with the world's most prestigious academic opportunities
openalex-mcp-server
Access the OpenAlex academic research catalog - 270M+ publications through MCP.
AI Research Assistant
The server provides immediate access to millions of academic papers through Semantic Scholar and arXiv, enabling AI-powered research with comprehensive search, citation analysis, and full-text PDF extraction from multiple sources (arXiv and Wiley open-access). - No API key is r
Paper Search
Search and download academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and IACR. Fetch PDFs and extract full text to accelerate literature reviews. Get consistent metadata for easier filtering, citation, and analysis.
paper-search-mcp-openai-v2
Find and download academic papers from leading sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, and IACR. Get standardized results and fetch full-text PDFs when available. Accelerate literature reviews with deep search and effortless retri
About Academic skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Academic skill on this page can be installed into Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, Codex, and more — using a single copy-paste command. No config drift, no per-stack adapters, no manual MCP wiring.