Best Citations AI Skills & MCP Servers

MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping

Zero-setup grounded web research MCP server and Pi extension for AI coding agents.

MCP server for searching academic papers, journals, and citations via the Crossref API

Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

MCP server for OpenAlex API - enabling literature review and research landscaping

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

Research knowledge repository with semantic search, citations, and project lineage tracking

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)

MCP server for Google NotebookLM — chat, source ingestion, audio overviews, citations, stdio + Streamable-HTTP transports.

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.

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.