paper-search-mcp and scholar-mcp

These are **competitors** — both provide overlapping core functionality (academic paper search and download from similar sources like arXiv), though B adds supplementary features like citation graph analysis and AI-based recommendations that A lacks.

paper-search-mcp

Emerging

scholar-mcp

Emerging

Maintenance 2/25

Adoption 10/25

Maturity 16/25

Community 21/25

Maintenance 13/25

Adoption 9/25

Maturity 9/25

Community 10/25

Stars: 779

Forks: 104

Downloads: —

Commits (30d): 0

Language: Python

License: MIT

Stars: 85

Forks: 7

Downloads: —

Commits (30d): 0

Language: Python

License: MIT

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About paper-search-mcp

openags/paper-search-mcp

A MCP for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, etc.

This tool helps researchers, academics, and AI professionals find and download academic papers from various sources like arXiv and PubMed. You input a search query, and it returns standardized paper details and, whenever possible, the full PDF. It's designed for anyone who regularly needs to access and analyze research literature for their work.

academic-research literature-review scientific-discovery knowledge-retrieval research-workflow

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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