Academic Research Intelligence MCP

Academic Research Intelligence MCP

Academic research intelligence for AI agents — paper search, scientific literature, citation analysis, arXiv search, author metrics, trending research, and a semantic related-work finder (pgvector). Built on free scholarly sources.

> Part of the FoundryNet Data Network. Attest your agent's literature review > with MINT Protocol. See also: > gov-contracts-mcp, brand-intel-mcp, patent-intel-mcp, > financial-signals-mcp, weather-intel-mcp, cyber-intel-mcp, > compliance-mcp, fact-check-mcp, oss-intel-mcp, social-intel-mcp.

Connect

• MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP): https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp
• MCP registry: io.github.FoundryNet/academic-intel-mcp
• Agent card: https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/.well-known/agent-card.json

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http academic-intel https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp

{ "mcpServers": { "academic-intel": { "url": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp" } } }

Also on Smithery: io.github.FoundryNet/academic-intel-mcp

Tools

| Tool | Price | What it does | |---|---|---| | search_papers | $0.01 | Paper search by query/year/field/venue/citations/open-access | | paper_detail | free | Full record — abstract, authors, citations, references, PDF | | citation_graph | $0.01 | Papers citing this / referenced by it (live OpenAlex) | | author_profile | $0.01 | h-index, papers, citations, primary field, recent activity | | trending_research | $0.01 | Trending topics + most-cited recent papers | | similar_papers | $0.02 | Semantic related-work finder via embeddings (pgvector) — premium | | mint_info | free | FoundryNet Data Network + MINT Protocol |

Free tier: 25 paid-tool queries/day per agent. Then x402: the tool returns an HTTP-402 with a Solana USDC payment memo — pay it, re-call with the same args plus payment_tx=. An Authorization: Bearer fnet_… key bypasses the paywall.

Sources

Daily (~4am PT): OpenAlex (primary, keyless, rich metadata + citations), arXiv (CS/physics/math/bio preprints), PubMed (biomed). Abstracts are embedded with fastembed (bge-small) for similar_papers (pgvector cosine). citation_graph and author_profile resolve live from OpenAlex. Semantic Scholar is an optional enhancement (TLDR/relevance via S2_API_KEY; keyless S2 rate-limits hard).

Built by FoundryNet · hello@foundrynet.io

Live network activity

Live feed: mint.foundrynet.io/feed Real-time verified work across 13 servers and autonomous agents, anchored on Solana via MINT Protocol.

Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: FoundryNet
• Source: FoundryNet/academic-intel-mcp
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.