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Paper MCP server

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by MCPServings·io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp·v0.5.0·1 stars
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Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.

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Tool list not cached yet. `describe` through the gateway fetches it live.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-26 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
  • Live reliabilityremote reachable in 120ms (auth required)20/20
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualityauth enforced (unknown)9/15
  • Maintenancelast push 65 days ago12/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner7/10
Overall 80/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Paper compares

Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
80/100
higher than 65% of 3,470 Web search servers
Uptime
100%
of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
Response time
503 ms
faster than 29% of 2,238 Web search servers
GitHub stars
1
more than 55% of 1,786 Web search servers

Install Paper in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http paper-mcp https://latex-tools.online/mcp
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What the publisher says

From the Paper repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

paper-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.MCPServings/paper-mcp -->

Remotely-callable MCP server for academic paper search, full-text retrieval & image→LaTeX, served at https://latex-tools.online/mcp.

Three corpora behind one normalized interface:

  • arxiv (default) — search, metadata, and full-text (HTML / markdown / LaTeX source)
  • semanticscholar (alias s2) — the full S2 API surface: citation graph, authors, recommendations, full-text snippets, bulk datasets
  • openalex (alias oa) — 316M all-field works: citation graph, authors with h-index, institutions, topics, influence metrics

Plus a unified searchall that fuses all three corpora, image→LaTeX OCR, and LaTeX lint + PDF→text** tooling.

Tools (41)

Generic / source-agnostic (8)

read_paper fetch chain: arxiv.org/html/{id} → ar5iv fallback (markdown/html), or arxiv.org/e-print/{id} tarball main .tex (latex). Formulas are recovered from the LaTeXML alttext invariant.

Medical / evidence-graded (1)

Image → LaTeX (3)

Turn a formula or table image back into LaTeX (e.g. a figure cropped from a paper) without needing your own vision model. Backed by the co-located recognize service (PaddleOCR-VL / DeepSeek-OCR / texify).

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Paper: common questions

Is Paper MCP server safe?
Mostly: it is graded B (80/100). Read the Paper safety report
How do I install Paper?
It runs remotely at latex-tools.online. 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 Paper need an API key?
Yes. The endpoint refuses requests without credentials; the publisher's docs say how to get them.
Is Paper maintained?
The last commit was 103 days ago (2026-07-24). The latest release is v0.5.0.
Is Paper up?
100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Paper?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Arxiv MCP server, Pubmed MCP server and Semantic Scholar MCP Server.
How does Paper compare with other Web search MCP servers?
safety score 80/100 (higher than 65% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 503 ms (faster than 29% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.

Alternatives to Paper

Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.

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  • Pubmed
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