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  <p><b>Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.</b>
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**Public Hosted Server:** [https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp](https://orcid.caseyjhand.com/mcp)

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## Overview

Researcher identity data from the ORCID registry. Search and disambiguate authors, build a researcher dossier from profile, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records, and chain external identifiers to Crossref, PubMed, or arXiv from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.

### Tools

| Tool | Description |
|:-----|:------------|
| `orcid_search_researchers` | Search the ORCID registry using structured field params (name, affiliation, keyword, ROR ID, DOI, PMID, grant number) |
| `orcid_get_profile` | Fetch a researcher's public profile — name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, external identifiers |
| `orcid_get_works` | Retrieve works (publications, datasets, software, preprints) for a researcher, paginated |
| `orcid_get_work_detail` | Fetch full detail records — abstracts, contributors, citations — for 1–100 works by put-code |
| `orcid_get_affiliations` | Fetch affiliation records: employment, education, memberships, and more |
| `orcid_get_funding` | Fetch funding records: grants, contracts, awards, and salary awards |
| `orcid_get_peer_reviews` | Fetch peer review activity: convening organizations, reviewer role, review type |
| `orcid_get_research_resources` | List research resources — compute allocations, equipment access, lab facilities |
| `orcid_resolve_researcher` | Disambiguate an ambiguous author name to a ranked list of verified ORCID iD candidates |

### Resources

| Resource | Description |
|:---|:---|
| `orcid://researcher/{orcid_id}/profile` | Researcher profile (person section) — name, bio, keywords, external IDs |
| `orcid://researcher/{orcid_id}/works` | Works list for a researcher — the first 25 plus the total count |

All resource data is also reachable via tools. Use resources when injecting stable researcher context into a prompt; use tools when filtering or processing results is needed.

## Capability reference

### `orcid_search_researchers` <sub>tool</sub>

- Structured params — `given_name`, `family_name`, `affiliation`, `keyword`, `ror_id`, `doi`, `pmid`, `grant_number` — AND together automatically; `query` appends raw Solr syntax to the generated clause
- At least one param must be non-blank — an empty or whitespace-only search is rejected rather than run against the whole registry
- `doi` and `pmid` map to `doi-self` / `pmid-self` field queries — finds researchers who linked that specific work to their ORCID record. URL and label forms (`https://doi.org/…`, `doi:…`, `https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/`, `PMID:…`) are accepted and reduced to the bare identifier
- `grant_number` phrase-matches the grant numbers on researchers' funding items, case-insensitively, over the parts between separators such as hyphens and slashes — `5F31MH010500` also matches `5F31MH010500-03`, but a number cut mid-part matches nothing — pair with `orcid_get_funding` to inspect each match
- `rows`: 1–1000 (default 20); `start`: 0–10,000 offset pagination (the ORCID Public API's ceiling for unauthenticated requests)
- Returns expanded-search results with inline name and institution data — no follow-up profile fetch needed for basic discovery
- Use for precise field-anchored lookups; use `orcid_resolve_researcher` for ambiguous names needing ranked disambiguation

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### `orcid_get_profile` <sub>tool</sub>

- Accepts a bare ORCID iD (`0000-0001-2345-6789`) or a full URI
- Returns name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, external identifiers (Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, Loop, etc.), emails, and country codes — all in one response
- Only publicly visible fields are returned; researchers control per-field visibility
- Entry point for building a researcher dossier before fetching works or affiliations

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### `orcid_get_works` <sub>tool</sub>

- Returns the first 50 works by default (`limit` max 1000); page with `offset` and the returned `nextOffset` — `workCount` reports the total available
- Set `include_external_ids` to `false` to drop DOI/PMID/arXiv/ISBN identifier lists for a lighter payload
- External identifiers are pre-formatted for chaining to Crossref, PubMed, or arXiv
- Summaries only — pass a work's `putCode` to `orcid_get_work_detail` for abstracts and full contributor lists
- Works are self-reported; an empty list does not mean no publications

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### `orcid_get_work_detail` <sub>tool</sub>

- `put_codes`: 1–100 per call (from `orcid_get_works`), resolved in a single round-trip
- Returns abstract, full contributor list with CRediT roles, complete external ID list, citation metadata (BibTeX or other deposited formats), journal title, and URL
- Per-put-code failures (not found or inaccessible) arrive as `errors` entries — the rest of the batch still resolves

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### `orcid_get_affiliations` <sub>tool</sub>

- `types` filters which sections to return: `employment`, `education`, `invited-positions`, `distinctions`, `memberships`, `qualifications`, `services`, or `all` — default is employment + education; an explicit empty list is rejected
- One upstream call regardless of how many types are requested
- Returns organization name, disambiguated ID (ROR/GRID/Ringgold), department, role, and date range per record
- Self-reported; an empty result does not mean no affiliation

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### `orcid_get_funding` <sub>tool</sub>

- No filtering params — returns the complete funding list for the ORCID iD in one call
- Returns funding type (grant, contract, award, salary-award), funder name and disambiguated ID (Crossref Funder ID/ROR), grant numbers, and funding period
- Entirely self-reported — most researchers with real grants have no entries here; absence does not imply no funding

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### `orcid_get_peer_reviews` <sub>tool</sub>

- No filtering params — returns the complete peer review history for the ORCID iD in one call
- Returns convening organization (journal/publisher), reviewer role (`reviewer`, `editor`, `chair`, etc.), review type, completion date, and an ISSN-keyed group identifier per record
- Self-reported or imported by participating publishers — coverage varies widely by researcher

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### `orcid_get_research_resources` <sub>tool</sub>

- Covers compute allocations, equipment access, lab facilities, data resources, and clinical study registrations
- A newer, sparsely populated ORCID section — most researchers have zero entries, and absence does not imply none exist
- Entries are typically deposited by resource-allocation systems (e.g. ACCESS, XSEDE) rather than self-reported
- Returns resource title, hosting organization (with disambiguated ID), external identifiers (often a portal URI), and access period

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### `orcid_resolve_researcher` <sub>tool</sub>

- Returns ranked candidates (5 default, up to 20 via `rows`) with transparent disambiguation signals: name match type (`exact`/`partial`/`other-name`/`none`), institution overlap flag, and anchor type (`doi`/`pmid`/`none`)
- Name and institution comparisons are case- and accent-insensitive — `José Baselga` and `Jose Baselga` classify the same candidate identically
- When `doi` or `pmid` is provided (bare or as a URL), uses `doi-self` or `pmid-self` as an anchor — researchers who have linked that work to their ORCID record are near-deterministic matches
- Falls back to a relaxed query (dropping affiliation) if the initial candidate set is empty, then to anchor-only retries when a supplied anchor is present
- No synthetic scores — raw signal fields only, so callers can apply their own ranking logic

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### `orcid://researcher/{orcid_id}/profile` <sub>resource</sub>

- Returns name, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, and external ide