Best Scholar AI Skills & MCP Servers
10 curated Scholar skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
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
Crossref
Resolve DOIs, search ~155M scholarly works, and fetch references via the Crossref REST API. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Openalex
MCP server for scholarly works, authors, and institutions via OpenAlex API
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)
authorprofilemcp
Discover co-authors and collaboration networks for any researcher. Extract research interests and keywords from scholar profiles to understand expertise. Accelerate literature review and team scouting with unified author insights.
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
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
About Scholar skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Scholar 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.