PubMed

liveHealthBiologyResearch

Search biomedical literature, fetch abstracts, and retrieve article metadata via NCBI PubMed

12tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

search_pubmed

Published biomedical and life-sciences papers from NIH PubMed's 35M+ citations.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
get_summary

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[] ver

No parameters required.

▶Try it
get_abstract

Full abstract text for one PubMed article by ID. Returns the abstract with structured sections (background, methods, results, conclusions) when the journal published it that way, otherwise the unstruc

No parameters required.

▶Try it
get_citations

DEPRECATED ALIAS for pubmed_get_citations — identical behavior, kept for existing callers. New callers should use pubmed_get_citations.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pubmed_get_citations

Find papers that CITE a given article — forward citation search. Pass one PMID; returns citing papers (most recent first) with full citation metadata. Use for "who cited this", "has this finding been

No parameters required.

▶Try it
get_full_text

DEPRECATED ALIAS for pubmed_get_full_text — identical behavior, kept for existing callers. New callers should use pubmed_get_full_text.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pubmed_get_full_text

Fetch the FULL TEXT of a biomedical paper from PubMed Central (the open-access subset) by PubMed ID. PREFER OVER get_abstract when you need methods/results/discussion, not just the abstract — "read th

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pubmed_evidence_landscape

Profile the composition of a biomedical evidence base by counting PubMed publication types for a topic: clinical trials, randomized trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, observational studies, an

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pubmed_publication_trend

Count PubMed publications by year for a biomedical topic. Use for publication momentum, emerging-target activity, or whether a field is accelerating or cooling. Returns exact PubMed search counts for

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pubmed_integrity_check

Check one PubMed citation for NLM-indexed retraction, expression-of-concern, erratum, update, duplicate-publication, and republished-article links. Use before relying on a specific PMID in diligence o

No parameters required.

▶Try it

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_pubmed","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_pubmed", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("search biomedical literature, fetch abstracts, and retrieve article metadata via ncbi pubmed");