Alert Scholar

Never miss what matters to your research

Alert Scholar’s AI reads every new paper across journals, preprint servers and conferences, picks out the ones relevant to your research and explains why each matters. It also tracks who cites your work, and how.

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Somewhere, someone just published the paper you need

Keeping up with the latest research in your area is a patchwork. You hear about some papers at conferences, some from colleagues, some on social media, and a few through keyword alerts, buried among dozens of irrelevant ones. Meanwhile, thousands of new papers appear every day, and the one that matters most to you can turn up anywhere, described in words you would never think to search for. So it often reaches you late, by chance, or not at all.

AI that understands your work

Alert Scholar changes that, starting from your own research. Connect your ORCID profile, a list of DOIs, or your Zotero or Mendeley library, and describe your open questions in your own words. It reads all of it and builds a detailed picture of your research: what you study, how you study it and the questions you are trying to answer.

It watches every source

It checks scholarly indexes, preprint servers, conference proceedings and journals around the clock, in every field, and reads each new paper with your work in mind. So what matters to you reaches you wherever it appears: in a field you don’t follow, a journal you never read, or a preprint nobody is talking about yet.

Only the most relevant papers reach you

Each new paper is weighed against your research across many dimensions, and only work that closely matches what you care about gets through. What arrives is a short list worth your time, each paper with an explanation of why it matters to you.

Know whenever your work is cited

Alert Scholar finds every paper that has cited you, and every new one as it appears, and explains how each uses your work. You see not just how often you’re cited, but how.

It reaches you wherever you work

Each day’s papers arrive in your Alert Scholar Inbox and a short email, at the hour you choose. Send a research interest to your lab’s Slack channel, follow it in any feed reader, or pass it to your own tools by webhook. Or connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant that supports MCP, and ask it what’s new or who cites you.

The papers you need, and how yours are used

Each day, at the hour you choose: the new papers that closely match your research, and every paper that cites you, each with an explanation of why it matters. Over time, your citations show how your work is used.

How many papersAbout 3 a day
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A new approach to your open question

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Your project’s problem, from another field

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A result your current project can build on

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Close to one of your research areas

Only when it’s relevant

A paper reaches you only when it closely matches your work, so some days bring several and others none. You choose roughly how many you want, from about one a week to about twenty a day: fewer means only the closest matches, more lets in some that match less closely.

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A new approach to your open question

Just in, Nature

The authors take a new route to the question you’re working on, with a method from another field, and test it on a far larger sample than earlier studies.

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Every paper explains itself

Each paper comes with a short explanation of what it does and why that matters to your work, so you can judge it in seconds. Save the ones you find useful, and when one misses the mark, say so: future papers move toward what you save.

312 researchers

147 journals

Your citations, graphed and explorable

Alert Scholar charts every citation to your work, back to your first paper: by paper, by year, by who cites you and where. Pick a paper or a year and every chart narrows to it, down to the citing papers behind each number.

Understand how your work is used

Wherever a citing paper can be read in full, Alert Scholar reads the sentences that cite you and says what the paper does with your work: uses it, tests it, describes it or mentions it in passing. Pick one to read those papers and where they cite you.

Wherever you work

Your papers arrive in your Alert Scholar Inbox and a short daily email. They can also go to your lab’s Slack channel, any feed reader or your own tools, and your AI assistant can bring them up whenever you ask.

Has anyone cited my work this week?

Two new papers cite you:

  • Tests a prediction from your 2024 paper
  • Challenges a finding in your 2023 paper

Want me to save either?

Ask your AI assistant

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant that supports MCP. Ask it what’s new or who cites you, have it save a paper, or describe a new research interest for it to follow.

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A new approach to your open question

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Share it with your lab

Send a research interest to your lab’s Slack channel, one message per paper, so the lab can discuss it in a thread and mark it relevant or not. Feed links and webhooks take it anywhere else, from Zotero’s feeds to n8n or Zapier.

Discovery moves at the speed ideas travel

Throughout history, the places where ideas flowed most freely were the places that invented the most. Science built that flow into its institutions, first through letters, then journals, then the internet. Now, research output has accelerated so much that it’s impossible for any one person to keep up. As a result, the findings that could change someone’s work reach them late, or only by luck. Alert Scholar is the next step in how ideas travel: every new finding, delivered to the people it matters to.

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