Scispace MCP

SciSpace MCP Server

Search and explore 280M+ academic research papers directly inside your AI assistant. The SciSpace MCP server brings peer-reviewed literature, abstracts, methods, results, and AI-extracted paper details into ChatGPT and Claude.

The SciSpace MCP server is currently available only through the official ChatGPT plugin directory and Claude connector directory.

Last updated: 5 November 2026

What it does

SciSpace MCP exposes the SciSpace research engine over the Model Context Protocol so your AI assistant can:

• Search 280M+ papers with semantic search, and narrow the results by year, citation count, open access, full text on SciSpace, or top journals and conferences. A search returns 20 papers by default and up to 100.
• Read a paper's full record: the complete abstract, TL;DR, all authors, venue, publication date, DOI, citation count, open-access link, and topics.
• Extract specific details from papers: 20 ready-made fields such as Methods used, Results, Limitations, and Dataset, or fields you describe yourself, such as Sample size or Country of study.
• Show papers in an interactive table that you can expand to full screen, add or remove columns in, and download as CSV.
• Link every paper to its SciSpace page, where you can read it, open the PDF when one is available, and keep working in SciSpace.

Use it for literature reviews, background research, finding citations, comparing methods across papers, or summarizing the state of a field. No SciSpace account is needed.

Available tools

Search filters

You don't need to type filters. Ask in plain words, for example "only open-access papers since 2020", and the assistant adds them. For reference:

To find a kind of paper, such as systematic reviews or meta-analyses, say so in your question.

Extraction fields

Ready-made fields: Insights, Conclusions, Results, Summarized introduction, Methods used, Literature survey, Limitations, Contributions, Practical implications, Objectives, Findings, Research gap, Future research, Dependent variables, Independent variables, Dataset, Population sample, Problem statement, Challenges, Applications.

Custom fields: describe anything else you need, for example "Sample size: how many participants were in the study?"

Values are generated by AI from each paper's text: passages from the full text when SciSpace has it, otherwise the title and abstract.

Limits

• Search: 20 papers by default, up to 100 per search.
• Extraction: up to 30 papers and 5 fields per call. A new field takes a few seconds per paper the first time.
• Table: up to 100 papers and 5 extra columns. One table can hold papers from several searches.

Setting it up

ChatGPT

1. Open the SciSpace plugin in ChatGPT's plugin directory (or search for SciSpace at chatgpt.com/plugins) and add it.
2. Start a new chat and ask a research question. ChatGPT uses SciSpace when it's relevant. To make sure it does, type @SciSpace before your question.

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

1. Open Customize › Connectors and browse the directory, or open the SciSpace listing directly.
2. Find SciSpace and click Connect. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner may need to add it for the organization first.
3. Start a new chat and ask a research question. Claude uses the SciSpace tools when they're relevant, or you can ask it to "use SciSpace".

Example prompts

• "Find recent papers on retrieval-augmented generation and summarize the key methods used."
• "What does the research say about the long-term effects of intermittent fasting on cardiovascular health? Cite the papers."
• "Find 30 papers on graph neural networks for drug discovery and show them in a table with columns for Results and Limitations."
• "Show me the most-cited papers on quantum error correction from the last 5 years."
• "Find systematic reviews since 2020 on exercise for depression, and extract how many studies and participants each one included."
• "Compare the datasets used across the top 10 papers on speech emotion recognition."

Troubleshooting

SciSpace is connected but no tools show up in chat.

Start a new conversation after adding SciSpace. Existing chats may not pick up newly added tools. In ChatGPT, plugins don't run in Temporary Chat.

The assistant answers without using SciSpace.

Name it in your request: type @SciSpace in ChatGPT, or say "use SciSpace" in Claude.

Search returns too few or off-topic papers.

Ask a full research question rather than keywords. If you asked for filters (years, citations, open access), try fewer: each filter narrows the set of papers the search ranks.

The assistant answered but didn't show a table.

The assistant shows a table when it thinks you want to see the papers. Ask it to "show the papers in a table".

Some table cells are empty or say the paper doesn't mention it.

Extracted cells fill in a few seconds after the table appears. A cell that says the information isn't mentioned means it wasn't found in the text SciSpace has for that paper, which is the title and abstract when SciSpace doesn't have the full text. To get papers SciSpace can read in full, ask for papers with full text (pdf:true).

The papers change when I ask a follow-up in ChatGPT.

With large tables (around 100 papers), ChatGPT may search again to answer a follow-up, and the new search can return different papers. Add columns in the table itself instead (expand it and use Add or Remove Table Columns), or ask for 50 papers or fewer.

I can't find a paper by its DOI.

Looking up papers by DOI isn't supported yet. Paste the paper's SciSpace link, or ask for it by title and topic.

Claude asks for permission every time it uses SciSpace.

In Customize › Connectors › SciSpace, set the tools to Always allow.

A tool call is slow or times out.

Extracting a new field takes a few seconds per paper. Retry the same request: ready-made fields that have already been extracted come back faster.

SciSpace won't connect or shows an error in ChatGPT or Claude.

Sign out and back in to your AI client, then retry. If the issue persists, contact support (below).

FAQ

Where does SciSpace's data come from?

SciSpace indexes papers from major publishers, open-access repositories, preprint servers, and journals. The corpus covers all major scientific disciplines.

Do I need a SciSpace account?

No. Search, paper details, extraction, and the table all work without signing in. Open a paper's SciSpace link to save it or keep working in SciSpace.

Are the extracted values reliable?

They're generated by AI from each paper's text (full-text passages when SciSpace has the full text, otherwise the title and abstract) and are meant as a research aid. Always check important claims against the original paper. Every paper links to its SciSpace page and, when available, its PDF.

What data does SciSpace receive?

Only what the assistant sends to the SciSpace tools: your research question, the papers and fields involved, and technical details the assistant adds, such as an anonymous user ID and conversation ID in ChatGPT. SciSpace doesn't receive the rest of your conversation. See the Privacy Policy.

Can I use this commercially?

Yes, subject to SciSpace's terms of service. For high-volume or enterprise usage, contact SciSpace.

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