Essays on research monitoring, database coverage, and how AI ranking changes academic workflows. Written for clinicians, researchers, and PhD students.
A practical workflow for monitoring a clinical or research topic each week without drowning in keyword alerts and duplicate papers.
Keyword alerts return chronological noise. AI ranking reads every abstract, scores it against your brief, and surfaces the five papers that actually matter. Here's the mechanic.
PubMed, Europe PMC, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Crossref and OpenAlex cover almost the entire scholarly record between them. Here's why each one matters and when it does.
Step-by-step guide to setting up PubMed alerts via MyNCBI, plus an honest assessment of what they miss — preprints, cross-disciplinary work, and AI ranking.
A practical comparison of the best Google Scholar Alerts alternatives in 2026 — PubMed Alerts, Feedly, Scite, Connected Papers, ResearchGate, and Relaylit. With honest trade-offs.