01 / Getting Started

Universal 1-Line Quickstart

Install and run find-research-papers-mcp across any modern agent runtime:

# ⚡ 1-Line Universal Installer (Auto-configures Claude Code, Cursor & Claude Desktop)
curl -fsSL https://papers.builditwithai.xyz/install | bash

# 🐍 Option 2: Run via Python (uvx)
uvx find-research-papers-mcp

# 📦 Option 3: Run via Node (npx)
npx -y find-research-papers-mcp
02 / Multi-Index Coverage

The 5 Scholarly Indexes

Instead of relying on LLM training weights that hallucinate citations, find-research-papers-mcp provides real-time verification across 250 million papers:

1. 📄 arXiv Preprints

Instant access to latest preprints across CS, physics, mathematics, and quantitative biology with direct LaTeX and PDF extraction.

2. 🧬 PubMed & PMC

Biomedical and life sciences literature from the National Library of Medicine with structured MeSH terms and clinical trial links.

3. 🌐 OpenAlex Global Graph

250M+ publications, author profiles, institutional affiliations, and concept taxonomies spanning all academic disciplines.

4. 📑 CrossRef Metadata

Authoritative DOI resolution, peer-reviewed journal metadata, funder registries, and publisher licensing data.

03 / Agent Integration

AI Agent Integration

Add papers to your agent environment:

Claude Code CLI

claude mcp add papers -- uvx find-research-papers-mcp

Cursor, Windsurf & Antigravity

Add to IDE settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "papers": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["find-research-papers-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "papers": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["find-research-papers-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
04 / API & Tools

Tool & Parameter Reference

Tool Name Parameters Description
search_papers query, sources, limit Unified multi-index search across arXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar.
get_paper doi or id Retrieves paper metadata, abstract, authors, and open-access PDF link.
get_references doi Fetches complete bibliography and referenced papers via CrossRef.
get_citations doi Fetches citing papers and citation graph via OpenAlex.
verify_paper doi HEAD-checks landing page accessibility and cross-checks retraction databases.
list_sources (none) Returns live status and latency metrics for all 5 scholarly indexes.
05 / Deep Research

Citation Graph Traversal

AI models can traverse the forward and backward citation network in a single turn without manual re-prompting:

# Step 1: Discover foundational paper
papers.search_papers(query="Attention Is All You Need")

# Step 2: Traverse forward citations to find state-of-the-art descendants
papers.get_citations(doi="10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762", limit=5)