orcid-mcp-server

io.github.cyanheads/orcid-mcp-serverVersion 0.4.0

Researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer reviews from the ORCID registry.

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Streamable HTTP

https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcpResponds575 msNov 14, 2026, 14:48 UTC

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Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http orcid-mcp-server https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
Name: orcid-mcp-server
Remote MCP server URL: https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orcid-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"orcid-mcp-server","type":"http","url":"https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp"}'

Streamable HTTP

npm: @cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server 0.4.0

Package only

npm (npx)

claude mcp add orcid-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server@0.4.0

Streamable HTTP

npm: @cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server 0.4.0

Package only

npm (npx)

claude mcp add orcid-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server@0.4.0

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Tools

9 tools

Tools of orcid-mcp-server
	Description		Read-only	Idempotent	Open world
`orcid_get_affiliations`Fetch affiliation records for an ORCID researcher. The `types` parameter controls which affiliation sections to return: employment, education, invited-positions, distinctions, memberships, qualifications, services, or all. Default is employment and education. Returns organization names, disambiguated organization identifiers (ROR/GRID/Ringgold), departments, roles, date ranges, and sources. Affiliations come from the researcher or from member organizations such as a university research information system; sources names who added each, and selfAsserted tells the two apart. Absence does not mean no affiliation.	Fetch affiliation records for an ORCID researcher. The `types` parameter controls which affiliation sections to return: employment, education, invited-positions, distinctions, memberships, qualifications, services, or all. Default is employment and education. Returns organization names, disambiguated organization identifiers (ROR/GRID/Ringgold), departments, roles, date ranges, and sources. Affiliations come from the researcher or from member organizations such as a university research information system; sources names who added each, and selfAsserted tells the two apart. Absence does not mean no affiliation.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_funding`List funding for an ORCID researcher, or supply a summary putCode as put_code to fetch one deposited award. Summary returns one preferred record per grant group with all sources and distinct periods. Detail returns that deposit alone with its own source, optional exact decimal amount and currency, URL, and its whole deposited description (ORCID caps it at 5,000 characters). Funding records are sparse; absence does not imply no funding.	List funding for an ORCID researcher, or supply a summary putCode as put_code to fetch one deposited award. Summary returns one preferred record per grant group with all sources and distinct periods. Detail returns that deposit alone with its own source, optional exact decimal amount and currency, URL, and its whole deposited description (ORCID caps it at 5,000 characters). Funding records are sparse; absence does not imply no funding.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_peer_reviews`Fetch peer review activity for an ORCID researcher: reviewer role (reviewer, editor, chair, etc.), review type, completion dates, ISSN-keyed group identifiers, and the convening organization as ORCID records it — often the service that imported the review (e.g. Publons, Clarivate). ORCID returns no journal name; groupIssn is the key to the journal, and a review that has one is headed by it. Use to assess editorial activity, journal affiliations, and the scope of a researcher's peer review contributions. Reviews come from the researcher or from member organizations that import them; sources names who added each, and coverage varies by researcher.	Fetch peer review activity for an ORCID researcher: reviewer role (reviewer, editor, chair, etc.), review type, completion dates, ISSN-keyed group identifiers, and the convening organization as ORCID records it — often the service that imported the review (e.g. Publons, Clarivate). ORCID returns no journal name; groupIssn is the key to the journal, and a review that has one is headed by it. Use to assess editorial activity, journal affiliations, and the scope of a researcher's peer review contributions. Reviews come from the researcher or from member organizations that import them; sources names who added each, and coverage varies by researcher.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_profile`Fetch a researcher's public profile from ORCID: name, other names, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, and external identifiers such as Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, and Loop profile. This is the entry point for building a researcher dossier. Pass a bare ORCID iD (0000-0001-2345-6789) or a full URI (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789). The profile contains only publicly visible data — researchers control visibility per field.	Fetch a researcher's public profile from ORCID: name, other names, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, and external identifiers such as Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, and Loop profile. This is the entry point for building a researcher dossier. Pass a bare ORCID iD (0000-0001-2345-6789) or a full URI (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-2345-6789). The profile contains only publicly visible data — researchers control visibility per field.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_research_resources`List allocation proposals for an ORCID researcher, or supply put_code from a summary record to retrieve its actual resource items. Summary is the default view and includes every proposal host, identifiers, access period, and source provenance; hostOrganization remains the first proposal host. Detail adds item names, types, all operators, identifiers, and URLs, paged by item_offset and item_limit (both require put_code); continue at nextItemOffset with the same put_code. Most researchers have no entries; allocation systems such as ACCESS deposit these records.	List allocation proposals for an ORCID researcher, or supply put_code from a summary record to retrieve its actual resource items. Summary is the default view and includes every proposal host, identifiers, access period, and source provenance; hostOrganization remains the first proposal host. Detail adds item names, types, all operators, identifiers, and URLs, paged by item_offset and item_limit (both require put_code); continue at nextItemOffset with the same put_code. Most researchers have no entries; allocation systems such as ACCESS deposit these records.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_work_detail`Fetch full work details by put-code from orcid_get_works. Accepts 1–1,000 raw codes, deduplicates in first-occurrence order, and fetches the first 100 distinct codes in one request, returning every record ORCID sends. Returns abstracts, contributors with CRediT roles, the record's external IDs (DOI, PMID, arXiv, ISBN, etc.), citation metadata, journal title, URL, and source provenance. A record listing more than 100 contributors keeps the first 100 plus the requested researcher's own entries, with contributorCount and contributorsTruncated; a citation over 8,192 bytes is left out and flagged by citationOmitted. Per-record errors are returned alongside successful works. deferredPutCodes lists, in request order, the codes past the 100-code fetch cap and any ORCID returned no result for; pass them as put_codes in another call.	Fetch full work details by put-code from orcid_get_works. Accepts 1–1,000 raw codes, deduplicates in first-occurrence order, and fetches the first 100 distinct codes in one request, returning every record ORCID sends. Returns abstracts, contributors with CRediT roles, the record's external IDs (DOI, PMID, arXiv, ISBN, etc.), citation metadata, journal title, URL, and source provenance. A record listing more than 100 contributors keeps the first 100 plus the requested researcher's own entries, with contributorCount and contributorsTruncated; a citation over 8,192 bytes is left out and flagged by citationOmitted. Per-record errors are returned alongside successful works. deferredPutCodes lists, in request order, the codes past the 100-code fetch cap and any ORCID returned no result for; pass them as put_codes in another call.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_get_works`Retrieve works associated with an ORCID iD — publications, datasets, software, preprints, and more. Returns work summaries with put-codes, titles, types, publication dates, journal names, and all external identifiers (DOIs, PMIDs, arXiv IDs, ISBNs). Narrow the list with work_types and year_from/year_to; the filters run over the whole record before paging, so matchedCount counts every match and workCount the whole record. The first 25 matching works are returned by default; page with offset and the returned nextOffset, or raise limit. Set include_external_ids to false to omit identifier lists for a lighter payload. Pass the putCode from each work to orcid_get_work_detail to retrieve the full record including abstract and contributors. External IDs are ready for chaining to Crossref, PubMed, or arXiv servers. Works come from the researcher or from member organizations such as Crossref or a university system; each work lists its sources and whether the researcher asserted it (selfAsserted). A researcher may not have linked all their publications.	Retrieve works associated with an ORCID iD — publications, datasets, software, preprints, and more. Returns work summaries with put-codes, titles, types, publication dates, journal names, and all external identifiers (DOIs, PMIDs, arXiv IDs, ISBNs). Narrow the list with work_types and year_from/year_to; the filters run over the whole record before paging, so matchedCount counts every match and workCount the whole record. The first 25 matching works are returned by default; page with offset and the returned nextOffset, or raise limit. Set include_external_ids to false to omit identifier lists for a lighter payload. Pass the putCode from each work to orcid_get_work_detail to retrieve the full record including abstract and contributors. External IDs are ready for chaining to Crossref, PubMed, or arXiv servers. Works come from the researcher or from member organizations such as Crossref or a university system; each work lists its sources and whether the researcher asserted it (selfAsserted). A researcher may not have linked all their publications.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_resolve_researcher`Disambiguate an author name to a verified ORCID iD. Returns ranked candidates (5 by default, at most 20 per search stage) with transparent disambiguation signals: name match type (exact/partial/other-name/none), institution overlap flag, and whether a DOI or PMID anchor was used in the query. The name is searched as an exact phrase first; when that finds nothing, byline initials (J. Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna) and then the other names listed on ORCID records are tried. A DOI or PMID anchor is near-deterministic — it filters to researchers who have linked that specific work to their ORCID record. Use this tool (not orcid_search_researchers) when the input is an ambiguous name that needs ranked disambiguation. No synthetic scores are used — raw signals only.	Disambiguate an author name to a verified ORCID iD. Returns ranked candidates (5 by default, at most 20 per search stage) with transparent disambiguation signals: name match type (exact/partial/other-name/none), institution overlap flag, and whether a DOI or PMID anchor was used in the query. The name is searched as an exact phrase first; when that finds nothing, byline initials (J. Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna) and then the other names listed on ORCID records are tried. A DOI or PMID anchor is near-deterministic — it filters to researchers who have linked that specific work to their ORCID record. Use this tool (not orcid_search_researchers) when the input is an ambiguous name that needs ranked disambiguation. No synthetic scores are used — raw signals only.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes
`orcid_search_researchers`Search the ORCID registry using structured field parameters or raw Solr syntax. Provide at least one non-blank search field; all provided structured params are ANDed together. The `query` field adds raw Solr syntax, ANDed with the structured params as one group. Returns ORCID iDs with inline name and institution data — no follow-up profile fetches needed for basic disambiguation. For ranked disambiguation of an ambiguous author name, use orcid_resolve_researcher instead. Continue a page from nextStart; the ORCID Public API pages only the first 10,000 matches, so narrow the query to reach the rest.	Search the ORCID registry using structured field parameters or raw Solr syntax. Provide at least one non-blank search field; all provided structured params are ANDed together. The `query` field adds raw Solr syntax, ANDed with the structured params as one group. Returns ORCID iDs with inline name and institution data — no follow-up profile fetches needed for basic disambiguation. For ranked disambiguation of an ambiguous author name, use orcid_resolve_researcher instead. Continue a page from nextStart; the ORCID Public API pages only the first 10,000 matches, so narrow the query to reach the rest.	Not declared	Yes	Yes	Yes

Details

Registry status: Active
Published: Oct 28, 2026
Updated: Oct 28, 2026
Website: Not given
Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server⁠ (opens in a new tab)
Categories: Uncategorized
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