Scopus Plus MCP server
io.github.michalhron/scopus-plus-mcp·v0.24.0Scopus and more: search, full text, citation networks, journal quality, bibliometrics.
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Scopus Plus MCP tools (6)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsRead from the package source without running it. The installed server may list more.
get_abstract_detailsRetrieve full details for a specific document by Scopus ID.
get_author_profileRetrieve an author's profile by Author ID.
get_citing_papersRetrieve a list of papers that have cited the specified document (Forward Citations).
get_quota_statusGet the current API quota status (remaining/limit). Note: Values are updated only after making a request.
job_resultOutput of a finished background job (its status if still running).
search_scopusSearch 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
- Code scan46 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
How Scopus Plus MCP compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 83/100
- higher than 70% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Tools
- 6
- the typical Web search server has 5
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Downloads a week
- 595
- more than 88% of 827 Web search servers with a package
What its tools let an agent do: 6 read
Install Scopus Plus MCP in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add scopus-plus-mcp -- uvx scopus-plus-mcp
What the publisher says
From the Scopus Plus 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.
Scopus Plus MCP: common questions
- Is Scopus Plus MCP server safe?
- Mostly: it is graded B (83/100). Read the Scopus Plus MCP safety report
- How do I install Scopus Plus MCP?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Scopus Plus MCP need an API key?
- Yes. The registry entry asks for
SCOPUS_API_KEY,SCOPUS_INSTTOKEN,OPENALEX_API_KEY. - Is Scopus Plus MCP maintained?
- The last commit was 35 days ago (2026-09-30). The latest release is v0.24.0.
- What can I use instead of Scopus Plus MCP?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Arxiv MCP server, Pubmed MCP server and PubMed Search MCP server. Compare all Scopus Plus MCP alternatives.
- How does Scopus Plus MCP compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 83/100 (higher than 70% of 3,470 Web search servers); tools 6 (the typical Web search server has 5); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.
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