Orcid MCP server
online · 100% uptimeResearcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer reviews from the ORCID registry.
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How Orcid compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 96% of 48,255 servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
- Response time
- 525 ms
- faster than 28% of 30,031 servers
- GitHub stars
- 5
- more than 83% of 28,688 servers
- Downloads a week
- 366
- more than 84% of 12,191 servers with a package
Release history: 7 versions in the registry since 2026-09-16, latest 2026-10-28, typically one every 6 days.
Install Orcid in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http orcid-mcp-server https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Orcid repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 9 Tools • 2 Resources
Public Hosted Server: https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
Researcher identity data from the ORCID registry. Search and disambiguate authors, build a researcher dossier from profile, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records, and chain external identifiers to Crossref, PubMed, or arXiv from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Resources
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Orcid: common questions
- Is Orcid MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Orcid safety report
- How do I install Orcid?
- It runs remotely at orcid.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Orcid need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Orcid maintained?
- The last commit was 41 days ago (2026-09-24). The latest release is v0.4.0.
- Is Orcid up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does Orcid compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 96% of 48,255 servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%); response time 525 ms (faster than 28% of 30,031 servers). Full comparison.