list_categories

MCP tool from Scientific Papers MCP by benedict2310

Lists available categories/concepts from any data source.

How to use it

list_categories is exposed by the Scientific Papers MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the list_categories tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Scientific Papers MCP

$npm install -g @futurelab-studio/latest-science-mcp

FULL SCIENTIFIC PAPERS MCP LISTING

Other tools in Scientific Papers MCP (15)

arXiv

"cs.AI", "physics.gen-ph", "math.CO"

category

Category ID or concept name (varies by source)

concept

Concept name or OpenAlex concept ID

count

Number of papers to fetch (default: 50, max: 200)

fetch_content

Fetches full metadata and text content for a specific paper by ID with complete text extraction.

fetch_latest

Fetches the latest papers from any source for a given category with metadata only (no text extraction).

fetch_top_cited

Fetches the top cited papers from OpenAlex for a given concept since a specific date.

field

"all" "title" "abstract" "author" "fulltext" (default: "all")

Paper ID (format varies by source)

OpenAlex

"artificial intelligence", "machine learning", "C41008148"

query

Search query string (max 1500 characters)

search_papers

Searches for papers across multiple academic sources with field-specific search and sorting options.

since

Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format

sortBy

"relevance" "date" "citations" (default: "relevance")

source

"arxiv" "openalex" "pmc" "europepmc" "biorxiv" "core"