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MCP Simple Pubmed
andybrandt/mcp-simple-pubmed
An MCP server that provides access to PubMed articles through the Entrez API.
Install
pip install mcp-simple-pubmedClient configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"simple-pubmed": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"mcp_simple_pubmed"
],
"env": {
"PUBMED_EMAIL": "<PUBMED_EMAIL>",
"PUBMED_API_KEY": "<PUBMED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Environment variables
PUBMED_EMAILPUBMED_API_KEY- GitHub stars
- 68
- Author
- @andybrandt
- Category
- Research & Data, Search Tools
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
Features
Search PubMed - Search the database using keywords, MeSH terms, author names, date ranges, and Boolean operators
Get Full Text - Download full text when available (for open access articles in PubMed Central)
Access Abstracts - Retrieve article abstracts and metadata via resource URIs
Systematic Review Search - Generate comprehensive search strategies with MeSH terms, synonyms, and date filters for systematic reviews
PICO Search - Build clinical question searches using the PICO framework (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
Author Search - Find all publications by a specific author with proper name formatting
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Supported clients
Clients mentioned in this server's README:
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