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io.github.cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server

io.github.cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server · v2.10.22

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.

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Last check

Reachable, 11 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

B 88/100

What it does: 11 tools · 11 read, 0 write · Research & education, Health, Law & government

No tool could be tested safely. Only read-only tools that need no input are called.

How the rating is made
  • Answers without login: +30
  • Speed of first answer: +10
  • Lists tools: +10
  • Tool descriptions: +15
  • Parameter descriptions: +10
  • Read/write annotations: +5
  • Safe test call: +8
  • More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL
https://pubmed.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Package
registry:   npm
identifier: @cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server
version:    2.10.22
transport:  stdio

Tools

11 tools listed at last check
  • pubmed_search_articles Search PubMed with full query syntax, filters, and date ranges. Returns PMIDs and optional brief summaries. Supports field-specific filters (author, journal, MeSH terms), common filters (language, species, free full text), and pagination via offset for paging through large result sets.
  • pubmed_fetch_articles Fetch full article metadata by PubMed IDs. Returns detailed article information including abstract, authors, journal, MeSH terms, and linked retraction, erratum, and comment notices; grants and the members of a collective author are opt-in (`includeGrants`, `includeInvestigators`). Set `maxResponseC
  • pubmed_fetch_fulltext Fetch full-text articles from PubMed Central as structured sections — the body, then back matter such as acknowledgments, declarations, and appendices — with tables and references. When PMC misses, transparently falls back to Europe PMC `fullTextXML` (structured JATS for records with a PMC counterpa
  • pubmed_format_citations Get formatted citations for PubMed articles in one or more formats (apa, mla, bibtex, ris, vancouver). Pass a single format as a string or multiple as an array. Retractions, errata, and expressions of concern NCBI links to an article come back in `notices`; Vancouver and APA also cite a retraction i
  • pubmed_find_related Find articles related to a source article — similar content (similar), articles citing this one (cited_by), or articles this one cites (references). Uses NCBI ELink as the primary source; falls back to Europe PMC then OpenAlex when NCBI is unavailable.
  • pubmed_spell_check Spell-check a PubMed search query against NCBI ESpell and get the corrected query back. Use after a zero-hit or thin `pubmed_search_articles` result, or when a drug, gene, disease, or author name may be misspelled. Corrections are applied in place, so field tags, operators, spacing, and gene symbols
  • pubmed_lookup_mesh Search and explore the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary. Returns descriptor records with tree numbers, scope notes, and entry terms, plus pagination via offset for paging past the maxResults cap.
  • pubmed_lookup_citation Look up PubMed IDs from partial bibliographic citations. Useful when you have a reference (journal, year, volume, page, author) and need the PMID — deterministic citation matching, more reliable than free-text search for structured references. Each citation must include at least journal or a four-di
  • pubmed_convert_ids Convert between article identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID). Accepts up to 50 IDs of a single type per request. Only resolves articles indexed in PubMed Central — for articles not in PMC, use pubmed_search_articles instead.
  • pubmed_europepmc_search Search Europe PMC, a broad open-access biomedical corpus. Surfaces preprints (`source: PPR`), patents (`source: PAT`), Agricola (`source: AGR`), plus everything in PubMed (`MED`) and PMC. Use when additional coverage is needed — preprints and EPMC-only OA records are the typical recovery. Paginate v
  • pubmed_europepmc_fetch Fetch complete Europe PMC records — including the full, untruncated abstract — addressed as `records: [{ source, epmcId }]`, an array even for one record. Pairs with `pubmed_europepmc_search`, which returns bounded `abstractSnippet` values and flags cut ones with `abstractTruncated: true`; copy each

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