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PubMed MCP servers and skills
There are 20 ways to connect PubMed to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants: 12 MCP servers and 8 skills. The most used is pubmed-mcp-server (163 GitHub stars).
Best PubMed MCP servers, compared →Most used
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
Local stdio MCP server for PubMed with 10 tools: search, fetch, fetch_batch, get_full_text, count, find_similar_articles, export_to_ris, get_citation_counts, convert_ids, batch_process
PubMed MCP — wraps the NCBI E-utilities API (biomedical literature, free, no auth)
Multi-source biomedical literature search: PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, full text, citations
Search PubMed and display structured paper metadata. Use when the user wants literature search results with titles, authors, abstracts, DOIs, and PubMed links.
Search PubMed (NCBI E-utils) for biomedical/life-science literature metadata and abstracts.
MCP servers (12)
- 1pubmed-mcp-server cyanheads · Search and webSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.83
- 2Pubmed MCP Server2 masa-med-ai · Search and webLocal stdio MCP server for PubMed with 10 tools: search, fetch, fetch_batch, get_full_text, count, find_similar_articles, export_to_ris, get_citation_counts, convert_ids, batch_process80
- 3MCP Pubmed pipeworx-io · Science and healthPubMed MCP — wraps the NCBI E-utilities API (biomedical literature, free, no auth)77
- 4PubMed Search u9401066 · Search and webMulti-source biomedical literature search: PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, full text, citations67
- 5Pubmed pipeworx-io · Science and healthPubMed MCP — wraps the NCBI E-utilities API (biomedical literature, free, no auth)39
- 6MCP Server Pubmed ncukondo · Science and healthMCP server for searching PubMed scientific articles34
- 7PubMed id shape, value discarded sadri-dridi · Science and healthPubMed id shape, value discarded25
- 8lineex-pubmed-mcp-smithery lineex · Search and webSearch PubMed with precision using keyword and journal filters and smart sorting. Uncover MeSH ter…23
- 9PubMed / MEDLINE Literature Search olyport · Search and webSearch biomedical literature, get article details, find related articles, and explore MeSH terms16
- 10PubMed Biomedical Papers — new research articles ($0.01/query) ee324 · Search and webPubMed biomedical papers: new research daily. $0.01/query. Register in-session — free testnet funds.15
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- 11pubmed-mcp mrfentmen · Search and webSearch PubMed biomedical literature and fetch article summaries. No key required.12
- 12PubMed Clinical Research Taru0208 · Search and webSearch 36M+ PubMed biomedical articles and ClinicalTrials.gov studies.12
Skills (8)
- 1pubmed-search Theta-Tech-AI · Search and webSearch PubMed and display structured paper metadata. Use when the user wants literature search results with titles, authors, abstracts, DOIs, and PubMed links.66
- 2pubmed-search Tenor-John · Search and webSearch PubMed (NCBI E-utils) for biomedical/life-science literature metadata and abstracts.49
- 3pubmed-eutils geneontology · Search and webSearch PubMed and fetch article metadata directly through NCBI E-utilities (esearch, efetch, esummary) with curl, reporting PMIDs. Use whenever a curator needs literature for a gene, process, or claim, wants a PMID for a citation, or asks to look something up in PubMed. Do not use a PubMed MCP for this.27
- 4pubmed-search-mcp-harness u9401066 · Search and webCline harness for PubMed Search MCP. Triggers: pubmed search, literature search, unified_search, pipeline, fulltext, release checklist, Cline.25
- 5pubmed-journal-downloader Richard0901 · Search and webDownload all article titles and abstracts from a specific SCI journal within a specified year range using PubMed E-utilities. Use when: (1) User wants to download all articles from a journal, (2) User provides journal name and year limit, (3) User needs bibliographic data for research22
- 6pubmed_search Azealoo · Search and webSearch PubMed for articles by query; return top N PMIDs with titles, year, journal, and link.22
- 7pubmed-database ZR1314521 · DatabasesQuery PubMed and retrieve biomedical article metadata and abstracts. Use for medicine, biology, clinical, neuroscience, and health-related literature searches.21
- 8db-pubmed slowloris-98 · Search and webFetch papers from PubMed by PMID or DOI, or search PubMed by query21
Questions
Is there an official PubMed MCP server?
Check the publisher on each listing: servers published by PubMed itself are the official ones. The most used PubMed server here is pubmed-mcp-server by cyanheads.
How do I connect PubMed to Claude?
Pick a server below, open its page and copy the install command for Claude Code, or the config block for Claude Desktop. Most PubMed servers need an API key or token from your PubMed account.