Zovo Paper Finder

Literature lists with real citation counts and Zotero-ready files.

Find research papers on a topic from Crossref, the DOI registry of scholarly publishers, see citation counts and open-access links from Unpaywall, rank a paper's references, and download BibTeX, RIS, CSV and a PDF reading list.

What it does

Topic search with year, citation and open-access filters
Most-cited references of one DOI and its citation count
APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE reference lists from DOIs
BibTeX and RIS files that import into Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley
CSV and PDF reading lists

Try asking

“Find the 20 most-cited papers on CRISPR off-target effects from 2018 to 2022 with a BibTeX file”

“Format these DOIs in APA: 10.1038/nature14539, 10.1038/s41592-018-0011-5”

Limitations

Records and citation counts come from Crossref (https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/); coverage follows what publishers deposit, and Crossref counts differ from Google Scholar or Scopus.
Open-access links come from Unpaywall (https://unpaywall.org/products/api) for the top results of each list; other rows show "not checked".
Topic search is Crossref relevance search over the 200 most relevant works (plus the 200 most-cited works matching the words when sorting by citations); works whose title holds all the topic words rank first. It is not a systematic review.
Crossref covers DOIs registered by publishers; arXiv preprints (DataCite DOIs) and conference papers without a Crossref DOI (for example NeurIPS and ICLR) are not included.
For one paper the tool lists its references as the publisher deposited them and gives the citation count; Crossref does not publish which works cite a paper, so that list is not shown.
Author names follow the publisher's deposit; check names before submission.
Search results are cached for up to 24 hours.
When a source is slow or limits requests, the tool says so and returns no invented data.

Add it

ChatGPT: once Zovo Paper Finder is approved, add it from the ChatGPT plugin directory.

Claude: go to Customize > Connectors > Add custom connector and enter https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp. No sign-in is needed. Once Zovo Paper Finder is listed in the Claude connector directory, you can add it from there too.

Other MCP clients can connect to the same endpoint: https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp