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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Expert academic research assistant powered by the Elsevier Scopus MCP. Searches over 100 million scholarly records across journals, conferences, and books.
Ensure the Scopus MCP is running. The scopus-dev entry in .antigravity.json points to the local install:
{
"mcpServers": {
"scopus": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["scopus-mcp"],
"env": { "SCOPUS_API_KEY": "your_key_here" }
}
}
}Read the scopus://search-syntax resource for the full Boolean query reference before constructing complex queries.
Goal: Find papers on a topic, filter by year/type, retrieve full details.
Step 1 — Broad search
scopus_search(query="TITLE-ABS-KEY(\"machine learning\" AND cancer)", count=10)
Step 2 — Retrieve full abstract for top result
scopus_get_abstract(identifier_type="scopus_id", identifier="85123456789")
Step 3 — Check citation count
scopus_get_citation_count(scopus_id="85123456789")
Step 4 — Paginate for more results
scopus_search(query="...", count=10, start=10)Goal: Find a researcher and analyze their impact.
Step 1 — Find author by name
scopus_search_authors(query="AUTHLASTNAME(Smith) AND AUTHFIRST(J) AND AFFIL(Harvard)")
Step 2 — Get full profile with h-index
scopus_get_author(author_id="7401234567")
Step 3 — See their papers
scopus_search(query="AU-ID(7401234567)", count=10)Goal: Understand how a paper's citations grew over time.
Step 1 — Find the paper
scopus_search(query="TITLE(\"Attention Is All You Need\")", count=1)
Step 2 — Year-by-year citation trend
scopus_get_citations_overview(
scopus_id="85029815652",
start_year=2017,
end_year=2025
)Goal: Analyze research output of a university on a topic.
Step 1 — Find the institution's Scopus ID
scopus_search_affiliations(query="AFFIL(MIT)")
Step 2 — Search papers from that institution
scopus_search(
query="AF-ID(60022195) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY(\"deep learning\")",
count=25
)scopus_search — Search Papersscopus_search(
query = "TITLE-ABS-KEY(\"climate change\" AND \"machine learning\")",
count = 10, # 1–25 results per page
start = 0, # pagination offset
view = "STANDARD" # or "COMPLETE" for more fields
)Returns:
{
"query": "...",
"total_results": 4821,
"showing": 10,
"papers": [
{
"scopus_id": "85123456789",
"doi": "10.1038/s41591-024-00001-0",
"title": "Deep learning for cancer genomics",
"first_author": "Smith, J.",
"publication": "Nature Medicine",
"cover_date": "2024-03-01",
"cited_by_count": 142,
"open_access": true
}
]
}Key query patterns:
| Pattern | Use case |
|---|---|
TITLE-ABS-KEY("term") | Most comprehensive search |
AND PUBYEAR > 2020 | Filter by year |
AND DOCTYPE(ar) | Articles only |
AND DOCTYPE(re) | Reviews only |
AND OPENACCESS(1) | Open access only |
AND LANGUAGE(English) | Language filter |
AND SUBJAREA(COMP) | Computer science papers |
scopus_get_abstract — Full Paper Detailsscopus_get_abstract(
identifier_type = "doi", # scopus_id | doi | eid | pubmed_id
identifier = "10.1038/s41591-024-00001-0"
)Returns: title, full abstract text, all authors with affiliations and author IDs, DOI, keywords, subject areas, citation count, open access status.
Tip: DOIs can contain slashes and dots — pass them raw, the tool handles encoding automatically.
scopus_get_author — Researcher Profilescopus_get_author(author_id="7401234567")Returns:
{
"author_id": "7401234567",
"name": "Smith, John",
"h_index": 42,
"document_count": 120,
"cited_by_count": 8500,
"citation_count": 10200,
"affiliation": {
"institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
"country": "United States"
},
"subject_areas": ["Computer Science", "Medicine"],
"publication_range": {"start": "2005", "end": "2024"}
}scopus_search_authors — Find Researchersscopus_search_authors(
query = "AUTHLASTNAME(LeCun) AND AUTHFIRST(Y)",
count = 5
)Common query patterns:
AUTHLASTNAME(Smith) AND AUTHFIRST(John) — full nameORCID(0000-0002-1234-5678) — by ORCIDAUTHLASTNAME(García) AND AFFIL(UNAM) — name + institutionscopus_search_affiliations — Find Institutionsscopus_search_affiliations(
query = "AFFIL(Stanford University) AND COUNTRY(United States)",
count = 5
)Returns: affiliation_id, name, city, country, document_count.
Use the affiliation_id in AF-ID(...) queries to filter papers by institution.
scopus_get_citation_count — Quick Citation Lookup# By Scopus ID:
scopus_get_citation_count(scopus_id="85029815652")
# By DOI:
scopus_get_citation_count(doi="10.1145/3292500.3330924")Lightweight endpoint — use this instead of scopus_get_abstract when only citations are needed.
scopus_get_citations_overview — Year-by-Year Trendscopus_get_citations_overview(
scopus_id = "85029815652",
start_year = 2017,
end_year = 2025
)Returns:
{
"total_citations": 85000,
"citations_by_year": {
"2017": 12,
"2018": 450,
"2019": 3200,
"2020": 8900,
"2021": 15000,
"2022": 20000,
"2023": 22000,
"2024": 15000
}
}See references/query-patterns.md for the complete syntax guide.
TITLE-ABS-KEY("deep learning" AND (cancer OR tumor)) AND PUBYEAR > 2019 AND DOCTYPE(ar)AU-ID(7401234567) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY("neural network") AND PUBYEAR > 2018AF-ID(60027950) AND SUBJAREA(COMP) AND DOCTYPE(ar) AND PUBYEAR > 2020TITLE(machine W/3 learning)TITLE-ABS-KEY("federated learning") AND DOCTYPE(re) AND PUBYEAR > 2020| API | Quota / 7 days |
|---|---|
| Search | 20,000 requests |
| Abstract Retrieval | 5,000 requests |
| Citation Count | 50,000 requests |
Agent guidelines:
scopus_search) before fetching abstracts — avoid unnecessary scopus_get_abstract calls on papers the user doesn't needscopus_get_citation_count (50K quota) instead of scopus_get_abstract (5K quota) when only citation counts are neededstart parameter) rather than increasing count beyond 25&sort=citedby-count context — the tool doesn't sort but you can re-rank the returned listnpx skills add <github-user>/scopus-mcp@scopus-researcher# Development (local)
cd scopus-mcp && uv sync
# Production (published to PyPI)
uvx scopus-mcp| File | Contents |
|---|---|
| Query Patterns | Full Boolean syntax reference with 30+ examples |
| Workflow Examples | End-to-end research workflows for common tasks |
| Output Reference | Complete field-by-field output documentation |
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