Europepmc
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-EUROPEPMC · 2 COMPONENTS
Europe PMC MCP — biomedical literature.
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Last scanned (19 hours ago)
Scores higher than 69% of npm servers
Category Education and Research
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-europepmc). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability72
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 1077 tokens (~107/item across 10 items; 10 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management17
- Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage81
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 43% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 11 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 +1
- Tool safety: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet. security
- Capabilities: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Tool coverage: 100 → unverified ▼ functional
- Stability: unverified → 0.07 ▲ functional
- First check of Schema quality: unverified functional
- Package version: 0.2.1 → 0.2.2 functional
- 31 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 30 Oct 26 79
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 4 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc@0.2.2
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-europepmc |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-europepmc/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3635932603 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:e51edcd777cb1b5de65ee248e87205d9f538113d495c5fc556f0c6550949a19e6d491a349345f8baa008d8162993a59efa2c41a732f5971a6f0f739a7 |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
abstract ~36
Just the title + abstract for one article (faster than get_article).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
citations ~121
Europe PMC literature database — the citing side of the citation graph: the biomedical articles that cite one article, identified by source (MED, PMC, PPR) plus its id. Returns each citing work's title, authors, journal, publication year and Europe PMC / PubMed identifiers, with the total citation count and a pageSize control. Answers who has cited a paper and how many times it has been cited.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
| pageSize | number | – | 1-1000 (default 25) |
| source | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
europepmc_citation_velocity ~91
Aggregate Europe PMC citing-publication records by year for one article and return a recent citation sample. Coverage is Europe PMC’s citation graph, so counts are a floor and citation volume is not evidence quality, replication, or endorsement.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
| limit | number | – | Citing records analyzed, 1–500 (default 250). |
| source | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
europepmc_evidence_landscape ~120
Summarize a bounded Europe PMC literature sample for a biomedical topic by publication year/type, citations, open-access status, preprints, journals, and authors. This is bibliographic mapping—not evidence grading, replication analysis, or a clinical conclusion.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from_year | number | – | – |
| limit | number | – | Sample size, 1–100 (default 100). |
| query | string | yes | – |
| sort | string | – | "cited" (default) or "date". |
| to_year | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
europepmc_publication_integrity_profile ~78
Inspect one Europe PMC article for linked retractions, corrections, errata, expressions of concern, comments, versions, and preprint/published-version metadata. No linked notice means none was found in Europe PMC—not proof the article is free of concerns.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
| source | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
europepmc_research_affiliation_profile ~109
Summarize publications whose author affiliations match an organization, optionally within a topic. Reports authors, journals, publication types, years, and citations from a bounded sample; affiliation text is not proof of sponsorship, ownership, or institutional endorsement.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | string | yes | – |
| from_year | number | – | – |
| limit | number | – | Sample size, 1–100 (default 100). |
| query | string | – | – |
| to_year | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
europepmc_trial_evidence_map ~97
Map publications that explicitly mention a ClinicalTrials.gov NCT identifier. Summarizes publication types, years, citation counts, preprints, and linked status notices. A mention can be background or secondary analysis—not necessarily the primary trial result.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number | – | 1–100, default 50. |
| nct_id | string | yes | ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, e.g. NCT03504397. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_article ~77
Full record for one article by (source, id). Source: MED (Medline), PMC, PPR (preprints), CTX (clinicaltrials).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | PMID for MED, PMCID for PMC, etc. |
| source | string | yes | e.g. "MED", "PMC", "PPR" |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
references ~107
Europe PMC literature database — the reference list of one biomedical article, identified by source (MED, PMC, PPR) plus its id. Returns each cited work's title, authors, journal, publication year and its own Europe PMC / PubMed identifiers, with the total count and a pageSize control. Answers what prior work a paper cites.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | – |
| pageSize | number | – | 1-1000 (default 25) |
| source | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search ~186
Europe PMC search for biomedical literature and preprints — the preprint server index for medicine and life sciences (bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square), for drug/clinical/disease preprint questions where arXiv (physics/CS) has nothing. Lucene-style query — use SRC:PPR to filter to preprints only (e.g. "lecanemab AND alzheimer AND SRC:PPR"), AUTH: for author, ABSTRACT: for abstract text. Returns metadata for matching articles.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | number | – | 1-based page (default 1) |
| pageSize | number | – | 1-100 (default 25) |
| query | string | yes | e.g. "CRISPR OR Cas9", "AUTH:Doudna AND ABSTRACT:editing", "lecanemab AND SRC:PPR" (SRC:PPR = preprints only) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Europepmc MCP server?
Europepmc runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-europepmc -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
What is the Europepmc MCP server?
Europepmc is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/europepmc. Europe PMC MCP, biomedical literature. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc).
Is the Europepmc MCP server safe to use?
Europepmc scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Europepmc MCP server expose?
Europepmc exposes 10 tools: search, get_article, abstract, references, citations, and 5 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,022 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Europepmc MCP server still maintained?
Europepmc is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Europepmc MCP server under?
Europepmc declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.