PubMedSearch MCP Server

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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

Clone this repository:

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

Install dependencies:

pip install fastmcp requests python-dotenv

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

Usage

Start the server in development mode:
```
mcp dev pubmed_search_mcp_server.py
```

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"
            ]
        },