Documentation
Corroborum docs
Corroborum is a remote MCP server that gives your AI assistant a scholarly literature search. These pages cover setup, the tools, limits and errors.
- Connect your AI assistantAdd the connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot.
- Toolssearch_papers and expand_citations: every argument and what comes back.
- Limits and unitsMonthly allowances, burst and parallel limits, what counts as a search.
- ErrorsEach error code, what it means and what to do.
At a glance
- Server URL:
https://mcp.corroborum.com/mcp(Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 sign-in). - Data: metadata and abstracts from OpenAlex (CC0), across every field (220M+ research papers). Hits link to free full text when one exists; Corroborum itself does not read full text.
- Ranking: keyword and semantic retrieval, reordered by a relevance reranker. A search typically takes 3–4 seconds.
- Retraction flags come from OpenAlex and are attached to every hit they apply to.
- Not offered yet: filters for study design, human studies, sample size and journal quality; full-text reading; answer synthesis (your assistant writes the answer).
Support
Email support@corroborum.com. Please include the time of the call and the error code if there was one; we never need your query text.