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list-citations

station__europepmc-org__list-citations external (needs EXECUTION_BACKEND_URL) europepmc-org pv-adjacent Constructa Configa

List articles that cite a given source article. Returns citing article IDs, titles, authors, and publication years. Primary use: trace signal evolution over time (how many subsequent papers cite the original safety report), measure scientific attention to a drug-event pair.

Taxonomy

Linnaean classification joined from the algovigilance taxonomy index via the parent config's rank.

Rank	Value
domain	`Substrata`
kingdom	`Constructa`
phylum	`Configa`
class	`station-config`
order	`europepmc`
family	`mcp-tool-config`

Characteristics:

substrate: config
domain: pv
lifecycle: continuous
authority: read
compounding: producer
io: agent-request → tool-response

Input schema

source stringrequired — Source database of the cited article: MED, PMC, PPR, AGR, CBA.
id stringrequired — Identifier of the article whose citations you want to list.
pageSize integer — Citations per page (1-1000, default 25).

Example call

POST /api/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "station__europepmc-org__list-citations",
    "arguments": {
      "source": "",
      "id": ""
    }
  }
}

How to invoke from a client

From any MCP-aware client, add https://algovigilance.com/api/mcp as an MCP server, then call this tool by name. From a raw HTTP client, send the JSON-RPC body above to /api/mcp.

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