Inciteful

Inciteful connects your assistant to an academic citation graph built on OpenAlex metadata (CC0), across all fields.

Keyword search finds papers that use your words. The citation graph finds the papers a field cites and builds on, including work worded differently.

What you can ask

A guided literature review on a topic or around seed papers: find related work, confirm the seeds with you, rank the field and snowball, check the abstracts and retractions, then write with DOI citations, provenance and a search log.
Example path →

MCP connector

Server URL: https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp
Login: None
Protocol: MCP 2026-07-28
Instructions: Inciteful's citation graph is what sets it apart from keyword search tools. Keyword search finds papers that use the query's words; the graph finds the papers a field cites and builds on, including work worded differently, and ranks them by their place in the network. Use to find seed papers, then always run the graph tools (, ) before you answer. If the user names a paper, DOI or PMID, go straight to the graph.
Inciteful covers the OpenAlex citation graph (all fields; CC0 metadata; open-access full text from PubMed Central). Use it for literature searches, related work, key or review papers on a topic, citation chasing (references and citing papers), how two papers connect, and BibTeX/RIS export. It is not a systematic search.
Typical flow:
Seeds: use the papers the user names. Otherwise run , pick 3-5 well-cited, on-topic papers yourself, and tell the user which you used (title, year, DOI) so they can swap any. A keyword result list is a seed list, not an answer.
on the seeds (seconds).
for important papers, reviews and recent work around the seeds, plus their references and citations. A new graph can take about a minute; if a call says it is still working, repeat the same call, which joins the running build.
to show how two papers or lines of work relate; for your own SQL.
Snowball: show the user each round's new candidates and add as seeds just the papers they confirm as relevant. Stop when a round turns up no new relevant papers, or after 3 rounds, then ask before going further. Say how many rounds you ran and why you stopped.

Tools

Reads data8

Skills

None in the store listings or on the server

MCP connector

Server URL

https://incitefulmed.com/academic/mcp

None

Protocol

MCP 2026-07-28

Instructions

Inciteful's citation graph is what sets it apart from keyword search tools. Keyword search finds papers that use the query's words; the graph finds the papers a field cites and builds on, including work worded differently, and ranks them by their place in the network. Use to find seed papers, then always run the graph tools (, ) before you answer. If the user names a paper, DOI or PMID, go straight to the graph.

Inciteful covers the OpenAlex citation graph (all fields; CC0 metadata; open-access full text from PubMed Central). Use it for literature searches, related work, key or review papers on a topic, citation chasing (references and citing papers), how two papers connect, and BibTeX/RIS export. It is not a systematic search.

Typical flow:

Seeds: use the papers the user names. Otherwise run , pick 3-5 well-cited, on-topic papers yourself, and tell the user which you used (title, year, DOI) so they can swap any. A keyword result list is a seed list, not an answer.

on the seeds (seconds).

for important papers, reviews and recent work around the seeds, plus their references and citations. A new graph can take about a minute; if a call says it is still working, repeat the same call, which joins the running build.

to show how two papers or lines of work relate; for your own SQL.

Snowball: show the user each round's new candidates and add as seeds just the papers they confirm as relevant. Stop when a round turns up no new relevant papers, or after 3 rounds, then ask before going further. Say how many rounds you ran and why you stopped.