How to connect
Same URL, five paste targets. Ready surface · Auth required. Not a safe-to-install badge. Handshake this URL
Paste into Settings → MCP or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools"
}
}
}
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools"
}
}
}
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Paste the URL. Enable in a new chat.
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web
Name: openalex-mcp-server
URL: https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools
OAuth only if this server requires it.
Save, start a new chat, enable the connector.
Developer mode custom connector. ChatGPT cannot reach localhost.
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode ON
Create custom connector
Name: openalex-mcp-server
MCP server URL: https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools
Auth: none unless the server requires OAuth
New chat → + → Developer mode → enable the connector
Register the HTTPS URL, then claude mcp list.
claude mcp add --transport http cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server \
https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools
Pass on session/new as mcpServers when the agent advertised HTTP MCP.
[
{
"type": "http",
"name": "cyanheads-openalex-mcp-server",
"url": "https://openalex-mcp-server--cyanheads.run.tools"
}
]
Paste into a README or docs site. The widget loads snippets from Influzer — still not a SAFE badge.
Same handshake clock as this listing (overlay / warm / seed; live tools/list only if that is missing). Indigo is live_ok, amber is auth_required, gray is unreachable. Not a SAFE badge. Stdio listings have no badge.
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- Surface
- Ready surface
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- Tools source
- tools/list (live)
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- Verification grade
- A (85)
- Last verified
- Status
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- Auth
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- Transport
- http, HTTPS
- Tools indexed
- 5
- 30-day uptime
- 100% of 6 samples over 6 days
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Tools
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openalex_resolve_nameResolve a name or partial name to an OpenAlex ID. Returns up to 10 matches with disambiguation hints. ALWAYS use this before filtering by entity — names are ambiguous, IDs are not. Also accepts DOIs directly for quick lookup.
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openalex_search_entitiesSearch, filter, sort, or retrieve by ID. Covers all OpenAlex entity types (works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, funders). Pass `id` to retrieve a single entity. Otherwise, use `query` and/or `filters` for discovery. Supports keyword search with boolean operators, exact phrase matching, and AI semantic search. Use openalex_resolve_name to resolve names to IDs before filtering. Searches and ID lookups return a curated set of fields by default; pass `select` to overr
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openalex_analyze_trendsAggregate OpenAlex entities into groups and count them. Use for trend analysis (group works by publication_year), distribution analysis (group by oa_status, type, country), and comparative analysis (group by institution or topic). Combine with filters to scope the analysis. Returns up to 200 groups per page — use cursor pagination for fields with many distinct values.
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openalex_get_citation_graphWalk the citation graph one hop from a seed work. Direction picks the edge: incoming citations (`cites`), the seed's own references (`cited_by`), or OpenAlex's algorithmically-related works (`related_to`). Note: `direction` follows OpenAlex's filter convention, which inverts the common English reading — `cites` returns works that cite the seed; `cited_by` returns works the seed cites. Results use the works schema; combine with filters/sort to narrow further.
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openalex_describe_fieldsList valid field names for an OpenAlex entity type and context (filter, group_by, or select). Use proactively before constructing a filter or group_by to avoid invalid-field 400 errors. Pass `query` to narrow the results by name similarity — useful when you have a partial or guessed field name.
Tool source: tools/list (live) · last probed 2026-11-04