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. Attest your agent's literature review
with MINT Protocol. See also:
gov-contracts-mcp, brand-intel-mcp, patent-intel-mcp,
financial-signals-mcp, weather-intel-mcp, compliance-mcp, cyber-intel-mcp.

Live MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP):
https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/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`	$0.02	Semantic related-work finder via embeddings (pgvector) — premium
`mint_info`	free	FoundryNet Data Network + MINT Protocol

Free tier: 25 paid-tool queries/day per agent. Then x402: the tool returns an
HTTP-402 with a Solana USDC payment memo — pay it, re-call with the same args plus
payment_tx=<signature>. 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).

Connect

Smithery: @foundrynet/academic-intel · MCP registry: io.github.FoundryNet/academic-intel-mcp

{ "mcpServers": { "academic-intel": { "url": "https://academic-intel-mcp-production.up.railway.app/mcp" } } }

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