academia_mcp and scholar-mcp

These tools appear to be **competitors**, as both projects offer MCP (Message Control Protocol) servers designed for facilitating automatic scientific research and managing scholarly papers, with "academia_mcp" focusing broadly on automatic research and "scholar-mcp" specifically on local paper management including search, download, AI analysis, and recommendations.

academia_mcp
54
Established
scholar-mcp
41
Emerging
Maintenance 10/25
Adoption 9/25
Maturity 25/25
Community 10/25
Maintenance 13/25
Adoption 9/25
Maturity 9/25
Community 10/25
Stars: 70
Forks: 6
Downloads: —
Commits (30d): 0
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Stars: 85
Forks: 7
Downloads: —
Commits (30d): 0
Language: Python
License: MIT
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About academia_mcp

IlyaGusev/academia_mcp

Academia MCP server: Tools for automatic scientific research

This tool helps researchers automate the process of finding, analyzing, and reporting on scientific literature and datasets. You can input search queries for papers on platforms like ArXiv or ACL Anthology, or datasets from Hugging Face, and it will output relevant documents, citations, references, and even summarized information. It is designed for scientists, academic researchers, and anyone needing to conduct comprehensive literature reviews efficiently.

academic-research literature-review data-discovery scientific-publishing knowledge-management

About scholar-mcp

45645678a/scholar-mcp

Local paper tool MCP server for AI IDEs - search, download (Sci-Hub/arXiv/Unpaywall), AI analysis, code-based recommendation, citation graph

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