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Citation Network MCP server

by michalhron·io.github.michalhron/citation-network-mcp·v0.15.0
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Citation-network analysis on Scopus or OpenAlex: coupling, co-citation, lineages, bibliometrics.

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Citation Network MCP tools (5)

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  • get_abstract_details

    Retrieve full details for a specific document by Scopus ID.

  • get_author_profile

    Retrieve an author's profile by Author ID.

  • get_citing_papers

    Retrieve a list of papers that have cited the specified document (Forward Citations).

  • get_quota_status

    Get the current API quota status (remaining/limit). Note: Values are updated only after making a request.

  • search_scopus

    Search for documents in Scopus using a query string.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-01 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan29 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitystatic API keys via environment variables6/15
  • Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 83/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Citation Network MCP compares

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

Safety score
83/100
higher than 65% of 48,255 servers
Tools
5
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Downloads a week
404
more than 85% of 12,191 servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 5 read

Install Citation Network MCP in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add citation-network-mcp -- uvx citation-network-mcp
Add to Cursor

What the publisher says

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

Scopus Plus MCP

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.michalhron/scopus-plus-mcp -->

The Scopus MCP server that goes further: search, full text, citation networks, journal quality and bibliometrics, for Claude and other AI assistants.

Search the literature, trace who cites whom across generations, map research fronts and intellectual bases, and pull the counts, metrics and bibliography you need, from a conversation. It is an MCP server, so any MCP client can use it: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor.

multi-generation citation lineages, and the citation network within any set of papers, with SPC/SPLC/SPNP main paths and key routes, RPYS and a historiograph, exported for Pajek, VOSviewer or Gephi.

  • 🕸️ Citation networks. Bibliographic coupling, co-citation,

strategies, reference lists checked against Crossref for gaps, and the sentences behind each citation, with their intent, from Semantic Scholar.

  • 🧾 Audited, not just built. Citer sets verified across search

the same analyses without a Scopus subscription.

  • 🔀 Two data sources. Scopus by default; add source="openalex" to run

field; journals above a percentile cut-off in chosen categories; publications per year; journal metrics; BibTeX for any list of papers.

  • 📊 Bibliometrics. Where a topic is published and in which quartile per

and see how often and where each one uses it.

  • 🔎 Full-text search. Find Elsevier papers that use a term in their body,

Scopus access supports, and why the rest fail.

  • 🩺 Honest about access. One call tells you which tools your current

live check of every tool against the real APIs.

  • ✅ Tested. 510 test functions, CI on Linux, macOS and Windows, and a

How it compares with the other Scopus MCP servers and with bibliometrics packages (bibliometrix, pybliometrics, VOSviewer, Pajek, ...): comparison.

Ask things like

Map the research front around these six papers on organizing visions.

Trace two generations of work citing Swanson & Ramiller (1997) and show me the main path.

Build the citation network of every Basket of Eight paper citing the organizing-vision papers, and show how the main path cites its predecessors.

How has publishing on "digital transformation" grown since 2010?

Get SJR and CiteScore for the Basket of Eight, and BibTeX for the papers we just found.

Tools

Parameters and details for each: tool reference.

Install

You need an API key from the Elsevier Developer Portal (register with your institutional email). OpenAlex needs no key.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

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

Citation Network MCP: common questions

Is Citation Network MCP server safe?
Mostly: it is graded B (83/100). Read the Citation Network MCP safety report
How do I install Citation Network MCP?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Citation Network MCP need an API key?
Yes. The registry entry asks for SCOPUS_API_KEY, SCOPUS_INSTTOKEN, OPENALEX_API_KEY.
Is Citation Network MCP maintained?
The last commit was 35 days ago (2026-09-30). The latest release is v0.15.0.
What can I use instead of Citation Network MCP?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: pyscn MCP server.
How does Citation Network MCP compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 83/100 (higher than 65% of 48,255 servers); tools 5 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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