Best Scholarly AI Skills & MCP Servers
5 curated Scholarly skills and MCP servers — install any of them into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, n8n, or any AI stack with one command.
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)
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 Scholarly skills on iClaude
iClaude is the universal install layer for AI skills. Every Scholarly 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.