Weekly · automated · screened by AI
Every paper worth reading. Nothing else.
Describe what you are working on in your own words. PaperPatrol reads every new abstract from your chosen sources and flags only what actually matches, not what happens to share a keyword.
Free. No password, set up in about a minute.
transcallosal projection neurons and axon guidance during cortical development
3 flagged this week
The process
Three steps, then it runs itself every week
Write what matters to you
No keyword lists. Describe your interest the way you would explain it to a colleague over coffee.
Every week, it reads for you
PaperPatrol pulls the new abstracts from your sources and judges each one against what you wrote, not against word overlap.
One email, only real matches
Each flagged paper arrives with a short note on why it matched and a link to read it. Change what you follow, or leave, at any time.
The long term value
Not a literature researcher. A literature updater.
Not every week brings a match, and that is exactly right: it means nothing worth your time was published. When something finally is, you hear about it first. Set it up once, and it keeps watching for as long as you need it to.
Get started
Set up your first scout, and get the last 14 days straight away
I’d read this first
What makes a good topic
The narrower your words, the sharper the result.
cancer
Too broad: thousands of unrelated papers.
T cell exhaustion in cancer
Closer, still a whole field.
CAR-T cell exhaustion mechanisms in pancreatic cancer immunotherapy
Specific: this is what gets you sharp results.
A 30 second test for the perfect phrase
Picture this. A new colleague starts on Monday. You hand them a stack of papers and one job: pull out the ones that matter to you. You are about to leave, so they get one sentence and no chance to ask a follow-up question.
What sentence do you give them?
That is the sentence PaperPatrol needs. Not your keywords. The sentence a person could actually sort a pile with.
Something missing, or something wrong?
Send feedbackOr write to hello@paperpatrol.me, for any reason at all.