Altmetric Mcp

Overview

Altmetric Mcp is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: MCP server for Altmetric APIs - track research attention across news, policy, social media, and more. Because it speaks the Model Context Protocol, AI assistants can use Altmetric Mcp as a set of callable tools instead of you copy-pasting between apps.

You can run Altmetric Mcp two ways: connect to the hosted endpoint at https://mcp.altmetric.com/mcp with no local install, or run it on your own machine via the npm package altmetric-mcp. The current release is v1.2.0, published under the MIT license, with source at altmetric/altmetric-mcp on GitHub.

On mcp.site, Altmetric Mcp sits in the Marketing category. Any MCP client can use it — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed among them — via the install snippets below. If you maintain Altmetric Mcp for mcp.altmetric, claim this listing to verify ownership, earn the Verified badge, and keep the details current.

Installation

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: Altmetric Mcp
URL:  https://mcp.altmetric.com/mcp