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Search 340M+ academic papers — citation graphs, semantic similarity, and AI literature reviews.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.nobleblocks.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http nobleblocks-mcp https://mcp.nobleblocks.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_papers — Search the NobleBlocks index of scholarly papers by keyword relevance, with filters. Each result has title, authors, year, journal, DOI, citsearch_trials — Search clinical trial registrations (ClinicalTrials.gov or WHO ICTRP) held in the NobleBlocks index. Each result carries its registry id (`tget_paper — Full metadata for one paper or trial: authors, journal, volume/issue/pages, identifiers (DOI, PMID, arXiv, OpenAlex, trial id, NobleID ARK wget_citing_papers — Papers in the NobleBlocks index that cite this paper, most cited first. Citation links are still being loaded, so an empty answer is reporteget_references — Papers this paper cites (its reference list) that are in the NobleBlocks index, most cited first.search_authors — Find researchers by name. Returns name, ORCID iD, OpenAlex id, affiliation and reported counts. Use get_author with an ORCID iD for the profget_author — One researcher's public profile by ORCID iD: name, affiliation, topics, reported metrics, NobleID when recorded, and their most cited papersget_citation — Format a citation for one paper as BibTeX, RIS or APA 7. The URL is the paper's NobleID ARK when it has a confirmed one, else its DOI. DOIs cite — Citations for several papers at once, in one format, in the order given. Each entry links to the ARK or DOI; failures are listed per identifsearch — Search scholarly papers and return citable results as {results: [{id, title, url}]}. `url` is open access first. Pass an `id` to fetch for tfetch — Fetch one paper as {id, title, text, url, metadata}. `text` is the abstract plus a formatted citation; `url` is open access first.Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.