Description

This MCP server provides advanced PubMed literature search and management capabilities through the NCBI E-utilities API, built by Chris Mannina with comprehensive citation formatting and research analysis tools. It offers 12 specialized tools including complex search filtering by date ranges, article types, authors, journals, and MeSH terms, detailed article retrieval with abstracts and metadata, author-based searches, related article discovery, and citation export in multiple formats (BibTeX, APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, EndNote, RIS). The implementation features intelligent caching with TTL support, respectful rate limiting, advanced search query building with boolean operators, XML parsing for PubMed responses, and research trend analysis, making it valuable for researchers, academics, and AI assistants conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, or bibliographic research workflows.

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Installation 

npx -y pubmed-mcp-server
npm install pubmed-mcp-server
git clone https://github.com/chrismannina/pubmed-mcp

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file to enable this MCP server:

Config file location: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pubmed-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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