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Pubmed MCP Smithery
leescot/pubmed-mcp-smithery
A Model Content Protocol server that provides enhanced tools to search and retrieve academic papers from PubMed database, with additional features such as MeSH term lookup, publication count statistics, and PICO-based evidence search.
Install
Client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"server": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"/path/pubmed-mcp-smithery/pubmed_enhanced_mcp_server.py"
]
}
}
}- GitHub stars
- 2
- Author
- @leescot
- Category
- Research & Data, Search Tools
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
Features
Search PubMed by keywords with optional journal filter
Support for sorting results by relevance or date (newest/oldest first)
Get MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms related to a search word
Get publication counts for multiple search terms (useful for comparing prevalence)
Retrieve detailed paper information including abstract, DOI, authors, and keywords
Perform structured PICO-based searches with support for synonyms and combination queries
Tools (5)
search_pubmed
Search PubMed for articles matching keywords with optional journal filtering
get_mesh_terms
Look up MeSH terms related to a medical concept
get_pubmed_count
Get the count of publications for multiple search terms
format_paper_details
Get detailed information about specific papers by PMID
pico_search
Perform structured PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) searches with synonyms
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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