How do I connect Orcid MCP Server to Claude?

The listing records `docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 orcid-mcp-server` as its setup step. Run it, then follow the repository's instructions for the client configuration; the listing names Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code as compatible clients.

Is Orcid MCP Server free?

The listed licence is Apache-2.0. Check the upstream terms for permitted use and commercial requirements; a public repository does not by itself mean the software is free or open source. Connected APIs and hosted services may have separate charges.

What can Orcid MCP Server do?

Orcid MCP Server documents 9 tools to the agent, including orcid_get_affiliations, orcid_get_funding, orcid_get_peer_reviews. The descriptions above come from project documentation. A live handshake does not test individual tool behavior.

Orcid MCP Server

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Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

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$docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 orcid-mcp-server

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9 of 9 tools

Documented tools (9)

From project documentation. A server handshake does not verify each tool’s description or behavior.

orcid_get_affiliations

Fetch affiliation records for a researcher. Accepts a types list to filter which sections to return: employment, education, invited-positions, distinctions, memberships, qualifications, services, or all.

orcid_get_funding

Fetch funding records: grants, contracts, awards, and salary awards, with funder names, grant numbers, and funding periods.

orcid_get_peer_reviews

Fetch peer review activity: convening organizations, reviewer role, review type, completion dates, and ISSN-keyed group identifiers.

orcid_get_profile

Fetch a researcher's public profile: name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, and external identifiers (Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, Loop, etc.).

orcid_get_research_resources

List research resources associated with a researcher — compute allocations, equipment access, lab facilities, and data resources. Sparsely populated; most researchers have no entries.

orcid_get_work_detail

Fetch full detail records for 1–100 works by their put-codes in a single bulk request (from orcidgetworks). Returns abstracts, all contributors with CRediT roles, complete external IDs, citation metadata, journal title, and URL. Per-record errors are surfaced without failing the whole call.

orcid_get_works

Retrieve works (publications, datasets, software, preprints) for a researcher. Returns summaries with put-codes, titles, types, dates, journal names, and external identifiers. Returns the first 50 by default with workCount and paging via offset/nextOffset (or limit); set includeexternalids false for

orcid_resolve_researcher

Disambiguate an ambiguous author name to a verified ORCID iD. Returns a ranked list of candidates (5 by default, up to 20 via rows) with transparent signals: name match type, institution overlap, and whether a DOI or PMID anchor was used.

orcid_search_researchers

Search the ORCID registry using structured field params (name, affiliation, keyword, ROR ID, DOI, PMID). All params are ANDed into a Solr query against the expanded-search endpoint, returning ORCID iDs with inline name and institution data.

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How do I connect Orcid MCP Server to Claude?: The listing records `docker run --rm -p 3010:3010 orcid-mcp-server` as its setup step. Run it, then follow the repository's instructions for the client configuration; the listing names Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code as compatible clients.
Is Orcid MCP Server free?: The listed licence is Apache-2.0. Check the upstream terms for permitted use and commercial requirements; a public repository does not by itself mean the software is free or open source. Connected APIs and hosted services may have separate charges.
What can Orcid MCP Server do?: Orcid MCP Server documents 9 tools to the agent, including orcid_get_affiliations, orcid_get_funding, orcid_get_peer_reviews. The descriptions above come from project documentation. A live handshake does not test individual tool behavior.