`get_summary`

Pack: pubmed · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp

Resolve PubMed IDs (from search_pubmed) to citation metadata: title, authors (plain name strings), journal, publication date, DOI, and author_details[] with per-author detail (name, affiliations[] verbatim from the MEDLINE record, and any emails[] found inside those affiliation strings — empty arrays when the record has none), index-aligned with authors[]. Batch up to ~200 IDs per call — pass the array search_pubmed returned, or a comma-separated string — much cheaper than calling per-ID. Use when you have PMIDs and need the citation or a corresponding author’s institution/contact; for the abstract text use get_abstract instead.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`ids`	string,array	yes	PubMed IDs, either as an array ([“33579999”,“34567890”] — what search_pubmed returns)
`items`	string	no

Example call

Arguments

{
  "ids": [
    "33301246",
    "32000001"
  ]
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_summary","arguments":{"ids":["33301246","32000001"]}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('get_summary', {
  "ids": [
    "33301246",
    "32000001"
  ]
});

More examples

{
  "ids": "33579999,34567890"
}

Response shape

Always returns: articles

Field	Type	Description
`articles`	array	Array of article metadata summaries

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "articles": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "pmid": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "PubMed ID"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Article title"
          },
          "authors": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Author names as plain strings, e.g. \"Smith JA\" (unchanged shape; see author_details for affiliations/emails)"
          },
          "author_details": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "name": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Author name as indexed by esummary (e.g. \"Smith JA\")"
                },
                "affiliations": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "description": "Verbatim AffiliationInfo/Affiliation strings from efetch XML; empty if the record has none"
                },
                "emails": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "description": "Email addresses found inside this author's affiliation strings by plain regex; empty if none present"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "name",
                "affiliations",
                "emails"
              ]
            },
            "description": "Per-author detail, index-aligned with authors[]: name, affiliations (verbatim from efetch XML), and any emails found inside them"
          },
          "journal": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Full journal name"
          },
          "pub_date": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Publication date"
          },
          "volume": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Journal volume"
          },
          "issue": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Journal issue"
          },
          "pages": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Page range"
          },
          "pub_types": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Publication types"
          },
          "doi": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Digital Object Identifier"
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "PubMed article URL"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "pmid",
          "title",
          "authors",
          "author_details",
          "journal",
          "pub_date",
          "volume",
          "issue",
          "pages",
          "pub_types",
          "doi",
          "url"
        ]
      },
      "description": "Array of article metadata summaries"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "articles"
  ]
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

get_summary