PubMed Search

Integrates with PubMed database via NCBI E-utilities API to search and retrieve academic papers, including titles, authors, journals, abstracts, and DOIs for biomedical research.

Installation Instructions

README: https://github.com/gradusnikov/pubmed-search-mcp-server

PubMedSearch MCP Server

A Model Content Protocol server that provides tools to search and retrieve academic papers from PubMed database.

Features

• Search PubMed by keywords in title/abstract or author names
• Retrieve detailed information including title, authors, journal, abstract, DOI and more

Installing via Smithery

To install pubmed-search-mcp-server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @gradusnikov/pubmed-search-mcp-server --client claude

Installing Manually

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd pubmed-search-mcp-server
   

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install fastmcp requests python-dotenv
   

3. Create a .env file in the project root (if needed for configuration)

Usage

1. Start the server in development mode:

   mcp dev pubmed_search_mcp_server.py
   

2. or add the server to Claude Desktop app CLAUDE_DIRECTORY/claude_desktop_config.json. For example if you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) it may look like this:

   "pubmed-search": {
               "command": "wsl.exe",
               "args": [
                   "bash",
                   "-c",
                   "source /home/[user]/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh && conda activate mcp && mcp run /home/[user]/pubmed-search-mpc-server/pubmed_search_mcp_server.py"
               ]
           },