OpenAlex MCP
Query the OpenAlex catalog of 270M+ scholarly publications from an agent.
🛡️ AgentReady threat assessment
MAESTRO 7-layer threat model + OWASP AIVSS risk score for OpenAlex MCP, derived from its capabilities.
AIVSS 2.9 · Low
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This connector exposes the OpenAlex open catalog of 270M+ publications, authors, institutions, and venues to agents for search and metadata retrieval. It is read-only over a public scholarly graph. Returned records are external data injected into context; there is no write surface or credential beyond a polite-pool email.
Key features
- 270M+ publication search
- Author/institution/venue metadata
- Citation graph queries
- Open scholarly catalog
Use cases
- Bibliometric research
- Map citation networks