Pubmed Mcp Server

Search PubMed with full query syntax, filters, and date ranges. Returns PMIDs and optional brief summaries. Supports field-specific filters (author, journal, MeSH terms), common filters (language, species, free full text), and pagination via offset for paging through large result sets.

Fetch full article metadata by PubMed IDs. Returns detailed article information including abstract, authors, journal, MeSH terms.

Fetch full-text articles from PubMed Central with structured sections and references. When PMC misses, transparently falls back to Europe PMC `fullTextXML` (structured JATS for records with a PMC counterpart), then to Unpaywall — publisher-hosted or institutional open-access copies as HTML-as-Markdo

Get formatted citations for PubMed articles in one or more formats (apa, mla, bibtex, ris, vancouver). Pass a single format as a string or multiple as an array.

Find articles related to a source article — similar content (similar), articles citing this one (cited_by), or articles this one cites (references). Uses NCBI ELink as the primary source; falls back to Europe PMC then OpenAlex when NCBI is unavailable.

Spell-check a query and get NCBI's suggested correction. Useful for refining search queries.

Search and explore the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary. Returns descriptor records with tree numbers, scope notes, and entry terms, plus pagination via offset for paging past the maxResults cap.

Look up PubMed IDs from partial bibliographic citations. Useful when you have a reference (journal, year, volume, page, author) and need the PMID — deterministic citation matching, more reliable than free-text search for structured references. Each citation must include at least journal or year (ECi

Convert between article identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID). Accepts up to 50 IDs of a single type per request. Only resolves articles indexed in PubMed Central — for articles not in PMC, use pubmed_search_articles instead.

Search Europe PMC, a broad open-access biomedical corpus. Surfaces preprints (`source: PPR`), patents (`source: PAT`), Agricola (`source: AGR`), plus everything in PubMed (`MED`) and PMC. Use when additional coverage is needed — preprints and EPMC-only OA records are the typical recovery. Paginate v

Fetch complete Europe PMC records — including the full, untruncated abstract — for records addressed by `source` plus `epmcId`. Pairs with `pubmed_europepmc_search`, which returns bounded `abstractSnippet` values and flags cut ones with `abstractTruncated: true`; pass those hits' `source` and `epmcI