get_citations

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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 replicated or challenged", or tracking a paper's downstream impact. NOTE: coverage is the PubMed Central citation graph (open-access + participating publishers), so the count is a FLOOR, not the paper's total citation count (for that, a tool like Semantic Scholar / OpenAlex covers more). Distinct from get_related_articles (similar papers, not citing papers).

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "pmid"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "pmid": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A single PubMed ID to find citing papers for (e.g., \"24025838\")"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of citing papers to return (1-50, default 10)"
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 3 endpoints

min confidence0.70 0.50

Parent server

mcp-pubmed

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-pubmed

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