Scite

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  "name": "Scite",
  "operator": "(unclaimed - source: registry-official · publisher: ai.scite)",
  "description": "Ground answers in scientific literature. Search full text, evaluate trust, access full-text articles",
  "depth": 2,
  "status": "unclaimed",
  "last_crawled": "2026-09-25",
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  "skills": [
    "citation-check",
    "summarize-docs"
  ],
  "protocols": {
    "mcp": "https://api.scite.ai/mcp",
    "a2a": null
  },
  "pricing": null,
  "regions": [
    "global"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
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    "p95_latency_ms": 2304,
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  },
  "aix_score": 45,
  "verification": {
    "identity": "none",
    "health": "probe/24h",
    "pricing": "unknown",
    "last_check": "2026-09-25T02:00:59.281Z"
  },
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  "links": [
    {
      "label": "homepage",
      "url": "https://scite.ai/mcp"
    }
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  "profile": {
    "mcp_server": "scite-api-mcp",
    "mcp_version": "1.0.0",
    "tool_count": 13,
    "tools": [
      {
        "name": "search_literature",
        "description": "Search scientific literature and read full-text content from peer-reviewed papers.\n\nUse `dois` (preferred) or `titles` with targeted `term` queries to extract full-text passages from specific papers. Each call returns up to 5 relevant excerpts (~500 chars each) — vary search terms across calls to read through a paper section by section.\n\n**IMPORTANT — keep `limit` small.** Use `limit: 10-50` with `offset` for pagination. Large limits with full citations and excerpts produce very large payloads that consume significant LLM context.\n\n**Calling with no parameters browses the corpus** (210M+ paper"
      },
      {
        "name": "citation_graph",
        "description": "Traverse the scite citation graph from seed DOIs to discover connected papers by citation topology\nrather than keyword. Each edge is a citation: `s` (citing paper) -> `t` (cited paper).\n\nUse it to find prior art / foundations (`direction=\"out\"`), impact and follow-on work (`direction=\"in\"`),\nor both. Get seed DOIs from `search_literature` first, then traverse; feed interesting nodes back into\n`search_literature` or `read_fulltext` for content. This tool returns structure (edges + titles), not\nabstracts or full text.\n\nSeeds are automatically expanded to their linked preprint/published versions "
      },
      {
        "name": "read_fulltext",
        "description": "Read a paper's body text by DOI, one page of characters at a time.\n\nUse this when you need the ACTUAL text of a paper — not term-matched snippets. It returns the body\nsliced by character offset so you can page through the whole document.\n\n**How it differs from other tools:**\n- `search_literature` returns up to 5 term-matched ~500-char excerpts — good for finding passages, not reading straight through.\n- `get_full_text` returns a proxy stitched only from sentences that cite other works — lossy, citation-only.\n- `read_fulltext` (this tool) returns verbatim body text, linearly, with pagination.\n\n"
      },
      {
        "name": "report_citations",
        "description": "Record your answer's full source decision set — what you cited and what you excluded, each with a reason and its provenance — as a verifiable, auditable citation record.\n\nCall this ONCE at the very end of a response that drew on sources, with your full decision set:\n- every source you CITED (credited in the answer), and\n- every source you retrieved/considered but EXCLUDED, each with a short reason.\n\nReport only sources you actually used — never invent references. Fire-and-forget: it records the\ndecisions and does not change your answer.\n\nUse it for:\n- Fact-checking / reducing hallucinations: w"
      },
      {
        "name": "citation_report",
        "description": "Generate a report of the sources you included and excluded in this session, with reasons — for fact-checking, provenance, and systematic-review/regulatory audit.\n\nSummarizes the citation decisions recorded via report_citations for the current session (or a\nspecific answer_id): how many sources were retrieved, screened, included (cited), and excluded, the\nbreakdown of exclusion reasons and screening stages, provenance by source, and the full per-source\nlists — so the user can review and sanity-check the reasoning behind each include/exclude choice.\n\nUse it for:\n- Fact-checking: show which sourc"
      },
      {
        "name": "create_collection",
        "description": "Create a new Collection owned by the signed-in user.\n\nUse this to start a Collection from a list of DOIs the user wants to group, track, and analyze together. The\ncaller becomes the Collection ADMIN. The returned `slug` identifies the Collection for `get_collection`,\n`update_collection`, `add_dois_to_collection`, and the other Collection tools.\n\n**DOI validation.** Provided DOIs are validated and resolved against scite; unknown DOIs are dropped and surfaced\nvia the `unmatchedDoiCount` in the response. An empty `dois` list creates an empty Collection the user can add to later.\n\n**Scope.** This "
      },
      {
        "name": "get_collection",
        "description": "Fetch a single Collection (a saved, named set of papers) by its slug.\n\nUse the `slug` returned by `create_collection` or `search_collections`. Returns the Collection's identity, sharing,\naccess level, and DOI counts. The caller must have at least VIEWER access (own it, be shared on it, or it is public).\n\n**Parameters:**\n- slug: The Collection slug (required).\n\n**Returns:** The Collection with id, slug, name, description, isPublic, accessType, and DOI counts."
      },
      {
        "name": "search_collections",
        "description": "List the Collections the signed-in user can access, with an optional name filter.\n\nReturns Collections the user owns, is shared on, or that are shared with their organization. Pass `q` to filter by a\ncase-insensitive substring of the Collection name. This is a filter over the caller's own Collections, not a full-text\nsearch of all Collections.\n\n**Parameters:**\n- q: Optional case-insensitive name substring to filter by.\n\n**Returns:** `{collections: [...], total: N}` where each Collection has id, slug, name, accessType, and DOI counts."
      },
      {
        "name": "update_collection",
        "description": "Update a DOI-list Collection the signed-in user can edit.\n\nPartial update: only the fields you supply change; omitted fields keep their current values. Omitting `dois` leaves the\nDOI list untouched; supplying `dois` replaces it (unknown DOIs are dropped and surfaced via `unmatchedDoiCount`). Requires\nEDITOR or ADMIN access. Only DOI-list Collections can be updated here — saved-search Collections are managed in the scite web app.\n\n**Parameters:**\n- slug: The Collection slug (required).\n- name: New name (optional).\n- description: New description (optional).\n- dois: Replacement DOI list (optional"
      },
      {
        "name": "delete_collection",
        "description": "Permanently delete a Collection. Requires ADMIN access on the Collection.\n\nThis cannot be undone. The Collection and its DOI membership are removed. Only the Collection ADMIN may delete it.\n\n**Parameters:**\n- slug: The Collection slug (required).\n\n**Returns:** `{deleted: true, slug: \"...\"}` on success."
      },
      {
        "name": "add_dois_to_collection",
        "description": "Add DOIs to a Collection. Works on both DOI-list and saved-search Collections. Requires EDITOR or ADMIN access.\n\nFor a DOI-list Collection the DOIs are added to the list. For a saved-search Collection they are force-included\n(added to the manual include list) so they appear even if the search would not return them. DOIs already present are\nignored. Use `create_collection` to make a new Collection or `remove_dois_from_collection` to take DOIs out.\n\n**Parameters:**\n- slug: The Collection slug (required).\n- dois: List of DOI strings to add (required, non-empty).\n\n**Returns:** The updated Collecti"
      },
      {
        "name": "remove_dois_from_collection",
        "description": "Remove DOIs from a Collection. Works on both DOI-list and saved-search Collections. Requires EDITOR or ADMIN access.\n\nFor a DOI-list Collection the DOIs are dropped from the list. For a saved-search Collection they are excluded (added to\nthe exclude list) so they no longer appear even if the search would return them. DOIs not present are ignored. This\nremoves papers from the Collection; it does not delete the Collection itself (use `delete_collection` for that).\n\n**Parameters:**\n- slug: The Collection slug (required).\n- dois: List of DOI strings to remove (required, non-empty).\n\n**Returns:** T"
      },
      {
        "name": "bibliography",
        "description": "Format a set of DOIs as a ready-to-import reference list (bibliography).\n\nGive it the DOIs of papers you have already found (e.g. via `search_literature`) and it returns a\nsingle formatted reference list in the requested citation format, built from Scite's stored metadata\n(authors, title, journal, year, volume, issue, page). Use this instead of hand-writing BibTeX/RIS —\nthe output is machine-formatted for direct import into reference managers (Zotero, EndNote, Mendeley)\nor a manuscript's bibliography, so keys and fields are exact.\n\n**Parameters:**\n- dois: List of DOI strings to include (requir"
      }
    ],
    "profiled_at": "2026-09-08T14:01:07.633Z"
  },
  "unreachable": false
}