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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.
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What can you do with 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 — every result carries verifiable provenance. 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 |
$0.05 | Semantic related-work finder via embeddings (pgvector) — premium |
daily_brief |
$10 | Curated daily trending-research digest (premium) |
brief_summary |
$0.50 | Top-5 signals — a sample of daily_brief |
mint_info |
free | FoundryNet Data Network provenance info |
Free tier: 25 paid-tool queries/day per agent. After that the tool returns an
HTTP-402 with payment instructions — complete payment, then re-call with the same
args plus payment_tx=<reference>. 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 · forge@foundrynet.io
Live network activity
Live feed: mint.foundrynet.io/feed
Real-time verified work across 17 servers and autonomous agents, with cryptographic attestation.
Install
Add Academic Research Intelligence MCP to your client. Pick the one you use.
claude mcp add --transport http academic-research-intelligence-mcp https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcpcodex mcp add academic-research-intelligence-mcp --url https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"academic-research-intelligence-mcp": {
"url": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, or `.cursor/mcp.json` for a single project.
{
"servers": {
"academic-research-intelligence-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `.vscode/mcp.json` in your workspace.
{
"mcpServers": {
"academic-research-intelligence-mcp": {
"url": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude Desktop.
{
"mcpServers": {
"academic-research-intelligence-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
}
}
}Add to `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`.
9 tools
Academic Research Intelligence MCP exposes 9 tools to a connected agent.
- search_papers
- $0.01
- paper_detail
- **free**
- citation_graph
- $0.01
- author_profile
- $0.01
- trending_research
- $0.01
- similar_papers
- $0.05
- daily_brief
- $10
- brief_summary
- $0.50
- mint_info
- **free**
Score
67 / 100
Good
- Documentation22/25
- Maintenance14/25
- Trust13/20
- Capability6/15
- Install experience12/15
- Documents what it does and how to connect
- Has a resolvable package or endpoint
- Exposes at least one tool, prompt or resource
- README has substantive content
- Includes a code example
- Documents its configuration
- Mentions credentials or security posture
- Last commit 21 days ago
- Has a release history
- Repository is not archived
- Licensed MIT
- Namespace verified in the official MCP registry
- Claimed by its owner
- Published under an organisation
- 9 tool(s) documented
- Provides prompt templates
- Provides resources
- 6 documented install method(s)
- Published to a package registry
- Offers a hosted endpoint — no local install
Version history
| Versions | Published |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0Latest | Jun 19, 2026 |