Research Digest

Turn on the digest in your project settings. Academe uses your papers, notes, and research focus to learn what you care about, then searches recent literature on your chosen cadence.

You get an email with a curated list of papers, each with a short explanation of why it matters for your work. One click imports a paper into the project.

Unlike generic keyword alerts, Academe works from your project context, so it can find papers that are methodologically relevant, challenge your conclusions, or open directions you have not considered.

• Contextual relevanceRanked by fit to your specific project, not just topic overlap.
• Contrarian findingsPapers that contradict or complicate your arguments are flagged for review.
• Cross-disciplinaryCatches relevant work from adjacent fields that keyword-based alerts would miss.

• FrequencyWeekly by default. Daily for fast-moving fields.
• ScopeAll new publications, or a narrower set of journals and preprint servers.
• SensitivityTune the net from tightly focused to exploratory.

The research digest is available on every paid plan, starting with Starter.

Alerts integrate with other workflows in Academe. They can be the launchpad: a new paper from the digest seeds a research report or populates the Gather step of a systematic review. They can also be the landing pad: when a project wraps, set an alert so any future paper relevant to it surfaces in your inbox.

The fundamental flaw of most alert systems is that they generate more inbox debt than signal. A keyword match becomes one more email you will never read. Academe takes a different approach:

• Deep screening rubricRather than matching on keywords alone, Academe maps the content of your question and builds a screening rubric. The alert surfaces papers that pass the rubric.
• Shown-but-excluded listTo counter fear of missing a paper, Academe shows near-misses it filtered out, so you can review the boundary cases.
• Relevance scores with rationaleEach surfaced paper carries a score and a one-sentence explanation of why it made the cut, such as population match, mechanism alignment, or another rubric signal.

Alerts follow the same principle as the rest of Academe: research works better when driven by a real question, not a pile of keywords. Ask what you are actually trying to answer and let the system work out which papers best address it.

• Research reportsGenerate a structured literature overview from papers the alert surfaces.
• Systematic reviewsSupplement an active review protocol with new papers as they publish.
• Quick searchLook something up mid-meeting or find papers to read on a new tangent.

• Can I search in languages other than English?Yes. Alerts inherit the same multilingual search behavior. Results come back in the source language with on-demand translation.
• Do you cover paywalled papers or only open access?We prefer open-access versions when available and surface them first. Institutional access lets paywalled sources through where your license permits.
• How is this different from keyword alerts?Keyword alerts catch overlap in vocabulary; Academe catches overlap in meaning. The shown-but-excluded list also gives you visibility into why something was filtered, which keyword-based tools cannot.
• How often does the underlying index refresh?Academic papers refresh weekly. Preprints and clinical trial registrations refresh more frequently. Your digest is delivered on the cadence you pick, weekly by default.