Research
Weekly literature watch
A few thematic PubMed feeds, deduplicated and sorted every week: 10 to 20 references, and a "make the slide" checkbox.
Screenshot of a real tool · fictitious data, names blurred
The problem
PubMed alerts and journal tables of contents pile up unread. Literature watch happens in fits and starts, before a congress or a talk.
Step-by-step method
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Define 3 to 5 thematic feeds: one PubMed query per topic (MeSH terms and keywords), limited to recent articles.
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Bring existing alerts (journal emails, PubMed alerts) into the same watch.
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Every week, the weekly task queries the feeds, deduplicates, and proposes 10 to 20 references sorted by relevance (study type, journal, guidelines).
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A digest: title, journal, year, a one-sentence summary, DOI and PMID, and a “make the slide” checkbox.
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Ticking “make the slide” queues the reference: a slide in your template, with the reference in the footer and the summary in the speaker notes.
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A whitelist of journals to filter out the noise.
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Check the coverage: compare your feeds with your existing alerts, and fill in the topics not covered.
Deliverable
A weekly digest readable on your phone and a slide bank that grows on its own.
Safeguards
Every reference comes from PubMed, with DOI and PMID: no reference generated from memory.
Starter prompt
Build 4 PubMed queries for my literature watch on [topics]. Run them over the last 7 days, deduplicate, and present the 15 most relevant references with a one-sentence summary, the DOI and the PMID.