academic-research vs Zotero MCP
academic-research is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑11‑06.
academic-research is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Mikko Rönkkö. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Zotero MCP is an MCP server published by kujenga. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Official MCP Registry, PyPI (MCP servers)). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-11. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Zotero MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace mronkko/claude-academic-research | Removed on 2026-11-06 Version: 0.32.2 Forks (GitHub): 17 Stars (GitHub): 29 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.3.1 Downloads/month (PyPI): 4 361 Downloads/week (PyPI): 1 095 Forks (GitHub): 26 Stars (GitHub): 162 Not marked · First seen |
| PyPI (MCP servers) | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.3.1 Downloads/month (PyPI): 4 361 Downloads/week (PyPI): 1 095 Forks (GitHub): 26 Stars (GitHub): 162 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | academic-researchno longer listed · | Zotero MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 29 | 162 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 17 | 26 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (zotero-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 4, secrets among them: 1 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 15 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/mronkko/claude-academic-research | github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-29 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of academic-research
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Academic research plugin for Claude Code: literature reviews, systematic reviews, peer review and citation checking, with every citation verified against OpenAlex, arXiv and…
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literature-review
Literature search, systematic reviews, citation management and reference managers.
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Semi-automated research assistant with skills for literature review, experiments, analysis, writing, and project knowledge management
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Research workflow framework with 9 specialized agents for discovery, acquisition, synthesis, citation management, GRADE quality assessment, and OAIS-compliant archival.
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Scientific content analysis for academic research. Supports the full workflow from research question to publication-ready output: codebook development, qualitative and…
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research-essentials
Everything for writing and publishing research: paper writing, journal formats, literature review, citations, ideation and figures.
What each says it does
academic-research
Rule-books and procedures for academic research with Claude Code: MCP-grounded citations, empirical integrity, systematic reviews, Zotero operations, and a parallel-critic manuscript revision loop.
Zotero MCP
Search your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.
How to run each
academic-research
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Zotero MCP As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --env "ZOTERO_API_KEY=<YOUR_ZOTERO_API_KEY>" --transport stdio zotero-mcp -- uvx zotero-mcpRequires: ZOTERO_API_KEY (secret)
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of academic-research publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: academic-research · What it can do: Zotero MCP · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Package data comes from the Python Package Index (pypi.org). Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.