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).
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Live network activity
Live feed: mint.foundrynet.io/feed Real-time verified work across 17 servers and autonomous agents, with cryptographic attestation.
