Best Citation AI Skills & MCP Servers
19 curated Citation skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
Oksure 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
Database
MCP server for database connectivity. Multi-DB (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite), connection management, schema introspection, query execution with token-optimized responses, rollback, history, elicitation for destructive ops, and prepared statements. Zero conf
Cli
Research knowledge repository with semantic search, citations, and project lineage tracking
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)
Server
MCP server for SourceVerify citation verification API
Notebooklm
MCP server for Google NotebookLM — chat, source ingestion, audio overviews, citations, stdio + Streamable-HTTP transports.
Pubmed
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Openalex Research
MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping
Emet
Zero-setup grounded web research MCP server and Pi extension for AI coding agents.
Crossref
Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Open Aeo
An open-source MCP server for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) monitoring.
Courtlistener
Search and retrieve US court opinions, federal dockets, judge records, citation networks, and oral arguments from CourtListener's 9M+ opinion corpus via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Linkup
Search the web in real time to get trustworthy, source-backed answers. Find the latest news and comprehensive results from the most relevant sources. Use natural language queries to quickly gather facts, citations, and context.
uk-legal
A Model Context Protocol server for UK legal research. Connects AI assistants to case law, legislation, parliamentary debates, bills, votes, committees, OSCOLA citation parsing, and HMRC tax data.
pubmed-mcp-server
MCP server for the NCBI E-utilities API. Search PubMed, fetch article metadata and full text, generate citations, explore MeSH terms, and discover related research.
America's Law Graph
US federal and state statutory law MCP server. 529K sections across 50 states, the US Code, and Code of Federal Regulations. 11 tools: fulltext search, citation graph traversal, cross-reference navigation, risk surface analysis, doctrinal lineage. Free tier — no API key needed.
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.
About Citation skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Citation 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.