MCP server

Orcid

io.github.cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

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

Source

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

Not verified

Status

Working at last check

Tools

9

Token cost

About 5,281 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

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

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.orcid-mcp-server]
url = "https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

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

Cursor

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

VS Code

{"servers":{"orcid-mcp-server":{"type":"http","url":"https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add orcid-mcp-server https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"orcid-mcp-server","server_url":"https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"orcid-mcp-server","server_url":"https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp"}

Tools

• orcid_get_affiliations ~438 tokens
  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, disambiguate
• orcid_get_funding ~424 tokens
  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, U
• orcid_get_peer_reviews ~448 tokens
  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
• orcid_get_profile ~263 tokens
  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
• orcid_get_research_resources ~511 tokens
  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
• orcid_get_work_detail ~568 tokens
  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. Returns abstracts, contributors with CRediT roles, the record's external IDs (DOI, PMID, arXiv, ISBN, etc.), citation
• orcid_get_works ~662 tokens
  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). The first 50 works are returned by default; workCo
• orcid_resolve_researcher ~865 tokens
  Disambiguate an author name to a verified ORCID iD. Returns ranked candidates (5 by default; rows accepts 1–10000 and is capped at 20 per search stage with a notice when clamped) with transparent disambiguation signals: name match type (exact/partial/other-name/none), institution overlap flag, and w
• orcid_search_researchers ~1102 tokens
  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 an

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