🔍 Enable AI assistants to search and access Google Scholar papers through a simple MCP interface.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Google Scholar MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. 🔍 Enable AI assistants to search and access Google Scholar papers through a simple MCP interface.
The server publishes 7 tools. What each one is for:
claude — The claude tool exposed by this serverCursor — Paste the following into Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new server: - Mac/Linux s npx -y @smithery/cli@latest runWindsurf — The Windsurf tool exposed by this serverCLine — 1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/JackKuo666/google-scholar-MCP-Server.git cd google-scholar-MCP-Serversearch_google_scholar_key_words — The search_google_scholar_key_words tool exposed by this serversearch_google_scholar_advanced — The search_google_scholar_advanced tool exposed by this serverget_author_info — Get detailed information about an author from Google ScholarThe server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Google Scholar's toolset — claude, Cursor, Windsurf and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by JackKuo666; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| claude | The claude tool exposed by this server. |
| Cursor | Paste the following into Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new server: - Mac/Linux s npx -y @smithery/cli@latest run @JackKuo666/google-scholar-mcp-server --client cursor --config "{}" |
| Windsurf | The Windsurf tool exposed by this server. |
| CLine | 1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/JackKuo666/google-scholar-MCP-Server.git cd google-scholar-MCP-Server |
| search_google_scholar_key_words | The search_google_scholar_key_words tool exposed by this server. |
| search_google_scholar_advanced | The search_google_scholar_advanced tool exposed by this server. |
| get_author_info | Get detailed information about an author from Google Scholar. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-scholar": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_scholar_mcp_server"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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