Best Crossref AI Skills & MCP Servers
7 curated Crossref skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
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
Crossref
Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Server
MCP server for Crossref metadata coverage scoring
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)
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 Crossref skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Crossref 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.