Find and summarize recent academic papers on any topic

Searches academic databases for papers on your topic and emails you a summarized digest of the best ones.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per paper found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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A stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personResultPayoff
Build size
Starter

A small build with a couple of connected tools.

Business functions
Reporting & AnalyticsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google Scholar

The problem it solves

Keeping up with academic research in your field means sifting through dozens of papers to find the handful that actually matter. Reading and summarizing them all yourself eats into time you'd rather spend on your own research.

Who it fits

A researcher, academic, or analyst who needs to track new papers in a field without reading everything themselves.

How it works

  1. You give the automation your research topic and date range
  2. It searches academic sources for relevant papers
  3. It ranks them by relevance and citation count
  4. It writes a summary of each paper's findings
  5. You receive a formatted digest emailed to you
What you get

New research surfaced without searching yourself

You get a digest of recent academic papers on your topic, ranked and summarized, delivered to your inbox.

What you get

An emailed digest table listing each paper's title, authors, source, citations, and a written summary.

What you need

Access to an academic search database and an email address for delivery.

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.

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