`ieee_search`

Pack: ieee-standards · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ieee-standards/mcp

Search the FULL IEEE Xplore corpus — IEEE and IET journal articles, conference proceedings, magazines, books, courses and standards — returning title, authors, abstract, publication venue, year, DOI and the IEEE Xplore link. The broad engineering / computer-science research tool: IEEE paper search, engineering research paper lookup, conference proceedings search, literature review on a technical topic, tracking one author’s IEEE publications. Set content_type to focus on a single kind of record (“Conferences”, “Journals”, “Standards”, “Magazines”, “Books”, “Courses”, “Early Access”), or omit it to search every type at once. Returns metadata plus the abstract; the full text is sold by IEEE, so follow html_url to purchase or read it under an institutional subscription. Requires your own free IEEE Xplore API key via _apiKey (register an app at developer.ieee.org). Example: ieee_search({ query: “federated learning edge devices”, limit: 10, _apiKey: “your-ieee-key” }). Example: ieee_search({ query: “millimeter wave beamforming”, content_type: “Conferences”, year: 2024, _apiKey: “your-ieee-key” })

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes	Free-text search across IEEE metadata (title, abstract, index terms), e.g. “federated learning edge devices”, “lithium-ion battery state of charge estimation”.
`content_type`	string	no	Restrict to one IEEE content type (optional). Omit to search every content type at once.
`year`	number	no	Restrict to this publication year, e.g. 2024 (optional).
`author`	string	no	Restrict to an author name, e.g. “Yoshua Bengio” (optional).
`publication_title`	string	no	Restrict to a journal or proceedings title, e.g. “IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation” (optional).
`index_terms`	string	no	Restrict to an IEEE or author index term, e.g. “Deep learning” (optional).
`sort_by`	string	no	Sort field (default relevance).
`sort_order`	string	no	Sort direction (default desc when sorting by publication_year, asc otherwise).
`limit`	number	no	Max records to return (default 10, max 50).
`start_record`	number	no	1-based offset for paging through a large result set (default 1).
`_apiKey`	string	yes	Your IEEE Xplore Metadata API key, sent as the `apikey` query param. Free — register an app at https://developer.ieee.org.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "federated learning edge devices",
  "limit": 10,
  "_apiKey": "your-ieee-standards-api-key"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ieee-standards/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ieee_search","arguments":{"query":"federated learning edge devices","limit":10,"_apiKey":"your-ieee-standards-api-key"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('ieee_search', {
  "query": "federated learning edge devices",
  "limit": 10,
  "_apiKey": "your-ieee-standards-api-key"
});

More examples

{
  "query": "millimeter wave beamforming",
  "content_type": "Conferences",
  "year": 2024,
  "_apiKey": "your-ieee-standards-api-key"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ieee-standards": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ieee-standards/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

ieee_search