Automatically collect and organize research papers in one sheet

The system searches academic databases for papers matching your topics and logs titles, authors, and abstracts into a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each paper found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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An outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Bright DataGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Keeping up with new research means checking multiple academic databases by hand, copying titles and abstracts into your own notes, and hoping you didn't miss a relevant paper. That manual search eats into time you'd rather spend actually reading and applying the research.

Who it fits

Researchers, students, and research teams tracking a specific field or topic.

How it works

  1. You specify the research topics, journals, or authors to track
  2. The system searches academic sources for matching papers
  3. It pulls out titles, authors, abstracts, and citations for each paper
  4. The results are logged in an organized spreadsheet
What you get

Papers on your topic organized in one place

You get every new paper on your chosen topics organized into one spreadsheet, complete with authors and abstracts ready to scan.

What you get

An organized spreadsheet of research papers with titles, authors, abstracts, and citations.

What you need

A Bright Data account and a Google account for Sheets.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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