# Europepmc (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc)

Europe PMC MCP — biomedical literature.

- Trust score: 82/100 (high trust)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/europepmc-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/europepmc-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc`: 82/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc`
- Version: `0.2.2`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-europepmc).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 72/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1077 tokens (~107/item across 10 items; 10 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 20/100
  - Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 81/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 43% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 10 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 11 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-europepmc -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-europepmc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-europepmc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-europepmc -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-europepmc": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-europepmc --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-europepmc:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-europepmc": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-europepmc -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-europepmc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 81, +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.

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +1)

- [security regression] 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.
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.07
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.1 → 0.2.2

### 2026-10-31 (score 79, 0)

- [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail

### 2026-10-30 (score 79)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (10)

### `search` (~186 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `page` (number): 1-based page (default 1)
- `pageSize` (number): 1-100 (default 25)
- `query` (string, required): e.g. "CRISPR OR Cas9", "AUTH:Doudna AND ABSTRACT:editing", "lecanemab AND SRC:PPR" (SRC:PPR = preprints only)

### `get_article` (~77 tokens)

Full record for one article by (source, id). Source: MED (Medline), PMC, PPR (preprints), CTX (clinicaltrials).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): PMID for MED, PMCID for PMC, etc.
- `source` (string, required): e.g. "MED", "PMC", "PPR"

### `abstract` (~36 tokens)

Just the title + abstract for one article (faster than get_article).

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `source` (string, required)

### `references` (~107 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `pageSize` (number): 1-1000 (default 25)
- `source` (string, required)

### `citations` (~121 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `pageSize` (number): 1-1000 (default 25)
- `source` (string, required)

### `europepmc_trial_evidence_map` (~97 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): 1–100, default 50.
- `nct_id` (string, required): ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, e.g. NCT03504397.

### `europepmc_evidence_landscape` (~120 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `from_year` (number)
- `limit` (number): Sample size, 1–100 (default 100).
- `query` (string, required)
- `sort` (string): "cited" (default) or "date".
- `to_year` (number)

### `europepmc_citation_velocity` (~91 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `limit` (number): Citing records analyzed, 1–500 (default 250).
- `source` (string, required)

### `europepmc_publication_integrity_profile` (~78 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required)
- `source` (string, required)

### `europepmc_research_affiliation_profile` (~109 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `affiliation` (string, required)
- `from_year` (number)
- `limit` (number): Sample size, 1–100 (default 100).
- `query` (string)
- `to_year` (number)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 82
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 81
- 2026-11-02: 80
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 79
- 2026-10-30: 79

## Common questions

### 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 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 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 5 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.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-europepmc
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-europepmc
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/europepmc
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-europepmc/pipeworx-mcp-europepmc