# paper-mcp MCP Server

Search arXiv/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex + medical evidence (PubMed/Europe PMC) + LaTeX/PDF tools.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-05 and the server listed 41 tools directly. Verified.

## Status

Pod connected to paper-mcp on 2026-09-05. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 16463ms.

It identifies itself as `paper-search` version 1.27.2, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 41 tools when it connected:

- `search_papers`
- `search_all`
- `search_medical`
- `get_paper`
- `search_by_author`
- `list_recent`
- [`list_categories`](/mcp/tool/list-categories)
- `read_paper`
- `list_paper_sources`
- `recognize_formula`
- `recognize_table`
- `list_ocr_models`
- `lint_latex`
- `extract_pdf`
- `extract_pdf_result`
- `get_paper_citations`
- `get_paper_references`
- `get_paper_authors`
- `match_paper_title`
- `autocomplete_papers`
- `search_papers_bulk`
- `get_papers_batch`
- `search_authors`
- `get_author`
- `get_author_papers`
- `get_authors_batch`
- `search_snippets`
- `recommend_papers_for_paper`
- `recommend_papers_from_examples`
- `list_dataset_releases`
- `get_dataset_release`
- `get_dataset_download_links`
- `get_dataset_diffs`
- `get_openalex_work`
- `get_openalex_citations`
- `get_openalex_references`
- `search_openalex_authors`
- `search_openalex_institutions`
- `search_openalex_works`
- `get_openalex_trends`
- `list_openalex_topics`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://latex-tools.online/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://latex-tools.online/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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