Scholar MCP for Claude Code

io.github.liyux3/scholar-mcp

Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

client:Claude Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Scholar MCP in Claude Code

run in your project directory

SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR

SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS

S2_API_KEY

OPENALEX_API_KEY

CORE_API_KEY

SCOPUS_API_KEY

DASHSCOPE_API_KEY

EXA_API_KEY

ZOTERO_API_KEY

ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID

NOTION_API_KEY

NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen.

claude mcp add scholar-mcp -e SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR=<SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR> -e SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS=<SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS> -e S2_API_KEY=<S2_API_KEY> -e OPENALEX_API_KEY=<OPENALEX_API_KEY> -e CORE_API_KEY=<CORE_API_KEY> -e SCOPUS_API_KEY=<SCOPUS_API_KEY> -e DASHSCOPE_API_KEY=<DASHSCOPE_API_KEY> -e EXA_API_KEY=<EXA_API_KEY> -e ZOTERO_API_KEY=<ZOTERO_API_KEY> -e ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=<ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID> -e NOTION_API_KEY=<NOTION_API_KEY> -e NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID=<NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID> -- uvx scholar-mcp

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

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