cern-inspire-mcp-server

io.github.cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server · v0.1.2 · health-and-science

cern-inspire-mcp-server is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 445 ms and exposes 8 tools.

Search INSPIRE-HEP papers, authors, experiments, HEPData records; get citation metrics and BibTeX.

Endpoint: https://cern-inspire.caseyjhand.com/mcp (streamable-http)

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HandshakeHealthy
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Tool count8
Latency445 ms
Last checked (UTC)2026-10-16T07:15:41.793Z

Health history

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2026-10-16T07:15:41.793ZHealthy445
2026-10-15T03:20:51.421ZHealthy3583

Tools (8)

cern_inspire_search_literatureSearch INSPIRE-HEP papers with INSPIRE query syntax or free text, filtered by document type, subject, and year, sorted by relevance, recency, or citations. Returns one page of papers with recid, title, first author, date, citation counts, arXiv ID, DOI, publication, and an abstract snippet; pass a r
cern_inspire_get_paperFetch one paper's full INSPIRE-HEP record by recid, arXiv ID, or DOI: authors with affiliations and identifiers, abstract, publication references, arXiv and DOI identifiers, keywords, subjects, citation counts, linked experiments, texkeys, and whether HEPData holds its numerical tables (record DOI,
cern_inspire_export_citationsExport INSPIRE-HEP's citation entries for the papers a literature query selects, as BibTeX or LaTeX \bibitem entries (EU or US style), keyed by INSPIRE texkeys and ready to paste into a bibliography. Name specific papers with "recid:451647 or arxiv:1207.7214 or doi:10.1016/…", or export a topic, aut
cern_inspire_search_authorsFind physicist profiles in INSPIRE-HEP by name, INSPIRE BAI, ORCID, INSPIRE ID, or author recid. Each profile carries its recid, BAI, ORCID, current and past positions, advisors, arXiv categories, links, awards, and a literatureQuery that selects the person's papers in cern_inspire_search_literature
cern_inspire_get_citation_summaryCompute INSPIRE-HEP's citation summary for one author or for any literature query: h-index, citation totals, average citations per paper, and paper counts per citation bucket (0, 1–9, 10–49, 50–99, 100–249, 250–499, 500+), each for all citeable papers and for published papers, plus citations receive
cern_inspire_search_experimentsFind experiments, collaborations, and facilities in INSPIRE-HEP (ATLAS, CMS, DUNE, Belle II, …) by name, accelerator, or INSPIRE legacy name (CERN-LHC-CMS); digits alone look up an experiment recid. Each record carries the accelerator, host institutions, collaboration and subgroups, classification,
cern_inspire_search_hepdataFind HEPData measurement records by physics content — process, observable, energy, collaboration — when the paper is unknown, through INSPIRE-HEP's index of every HEPData submission. Each hit carries the paper recids (pass to cern_inspire_get_paper), collaborations, keywords (reactions such as "P P
cern_inspire_list_referenceDecode the vocabulary the other cern_inspire tools take: INSPIRE search syntax (field operators, boolean logic, sort orders, the 10,000-result window, and how malformed queries behave), identifier forms (recid, arXiv, DOI, BAI, ORCID, INSPIRE ID, institution recid, texkey, HEPData DOIs), the documen