Search OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, Europe PMC and worldwide patents (European Patent Office) at once and get one clean, deduplicated, newest-first list of papers, preprints and patents - with abstracts, authors and affiliations, DOIs, PDF links, citation counts and open-access status. Schedule it with Only new results and it becomes a research alert; follow it as an RSS/Atom feed; add AI summaries and multilingual search on your own AI key.
Built for R&D and innovation teams watching a technology, IP and patent professionals tracking prior art, pharma and biotech scouting new findings, investors and analysts following a field, librarians, and AI agents that need fresh research.
Why this radar
- Many sources, one record each. The same paper found by OpenAlex, PubMed and Europe PMC comes back once, with the best fields from each and a
foundInlist. Matching uses DOIs, PubMed / PMC / arXiv ids and normalized titles. - Fresh first. Results are sorted newest first; filter by Published within N days or a start date.
- Research alerts. Schedule it with Only new results: each run returns only what earlier runs didn't deliver, so you pay only for new papers.
- RSS / Atom feed. Call the Actor's Standby URL with
&format=atomand paste it into Feedly, Slack, Teams, Inoreader or Zapier. Repeat polls within 30 minutes are served from memory - no new search, no new charge. - AI summaries and multilingual search (optional). Get a short plain-language summary of each result, or search your query translated into other languages (e.g. German, Japanese, Chinese). Use Apify's built-in AI (no key; a fraction of a cent per call, billed to your Apify account) or your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek or local model. The Actor charges nothing extra for AI.
- Influence, not just volume. Each paper carries its citations per year, a field-normalized impact (1.0 = the world average for papers of the same field and year) and a top 1% / top 10% flag. Sort by Most cited or Highest impact to find the work that matters.
- Retractions left out. Retracted papers are dropped by default (or kept and flagged, if you ask).
- Ready to share and cite. Every run saves a readable digest (
REPORT: newest and most influential per query) andCITATIONS.bibfor Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or LaTeX. - Official open sources only. Fast, reliable runs.
How to use it
- Enter one or more search queries (
solid state battery,CRISPR base editing,"retrieval augmented generation"). - Pick sources (all five are on by default) and optionally Published within (days).
- Press Start. For alerts, turn on Only new results and add a schedule (daily or weekly).
Example input:
{
"queries": ["solid state battery", "sulfide electrolyte"],
"postedWithinDays": 30,
"maxItems": 200,
"onlyNew": true
}Sources
| Source | Covers |
|---|---|
| OpenAlex | 250M+ scholarly works in every field (journals, conferences, books, preprints) |
| arXiv | Preprints in physics, computer science, maths, quantitative biology and finance, statistics, engineering |
| PubMed | Biomedical and life-science literature |
| Europe PMC | Life-science literature and preprints (bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square...) |
| Patents | Worldwide patent publications from the European Patent Office's database (EP, WO/PCT, US, CN, JP, KR and 100+ offices) with English titles and abstracts, applicants, inventors and IPC classes |
| Crossref (optional) | DOI metadata from publishers |
Pricing
$3 per 1,000 results (each paper or patent counts once, however many sources found it) plus a small start fee per run. Duplicates and, with Only new results, already-delivered items are free. AI summaries and translations cost the model's tokens: a fraction of a cent each with the built-in AI (billed to your Apify account by Apify's AI gateway), or your provider's price with your own key. See the Pricing tab, and set a maximum charge per run to cap spend.
Tips
- Use several specific queries rather than one broad one; results are merged.
- Queries match titles and abstracts, so papers that only mention your words in passing stay out.
- For a literature review, set Sort by to Highest impact with Published within 1,100 days: the most influential work of the last three years, deduplicated, with BibTeX.
- For a weekly alert, set Published within to 8 days and schedule weekly with Only new results.
- A free OpenAlex key gives your runs their own daily budget.
Use from AI agents
The Actor is also an MCP tool (Standby /mcp), and part of the webdata-tools-mcp server.