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Citation graph search over OpenAlex: similar papers, citation networks, paths and BibTeX export.
Remote server: your requests and data go to incitefulmed.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http inciteful https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_literature — A live keyword search of OpenAlex (CC0 metadata), not of the citation graph snapshot. It matches titles, abstracts and full text where OpenAget_papers — Fetch OpenAlex records for up to 100 papers by DOI, OpenAlex ID (W…), PMID or PMCID: abstract, authors, venue, type and version, is_retractefind_similar_papers — Ranks papers by their citation links to the seeds, which surfaces related work that keyword search misses. Give 1–500 seed papers (DOIs, Opeexplore_citation_network — Map a field by its citations rather than its keywords: rank papers, authors, journals or institutions in the depth-2 citation graph Incitefuconnect_papers — Find citation paths between two papers (DOI, OpenAlex ID or PMID), treating each citation as a link in either direction. Returns the paths, query_citation_graph — Run your own read-only SQLite query on the citation graph Inciteful builds around 1–500 seed papers (depth 2). It queries the Inciteful citaread_paper — Read the full text of an open-access paper from PubMed Central (PMC BioC) in chunks: pass offset (0 to start) and max_chars (up to 40000), texport_citations — Build BibTeX or RIS citations for up to 100 papers (DOI, OpenAlex ID, PMID or PMCID) from their OpenAlex records, with entry types, years, vNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.