Decide which papers are worth your attention before opening them.

OpenPharos helps researchers receive paper alerts in their own language, with translated titles in 8 languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, and Korean. Quickly decide which papers deserve deep reading.

A lightweight selection layer before deep reading.

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Three steps to choose which papers to open

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Describe what you care about

Choose fields, topics, and keywords in plain language.

2

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3

Select new papers in minutes

Receive translated titles, key metadata, and AI summaries where licensing allows, so you can decide what deserves deeper reading.

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Scan translated titles and key metadata first. Open the full paper only when it looks worth your focus.

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Best-fit fields

OpenPharos works best in journal-led fields. Book-heavy and local-language fields usually need more tuning.

๐ŸŒŸ Strong fit
๐Ÿ›  Works with tuning
๐Ÿ“š Often less suitable

Before your reading pile

Choose before you manage.

Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote are useful once you have decided a paper matters.

Before that, scan new papers quickly and narrow down what deserves reading.

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  • 1 alert
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  • 3 papers per delivery
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  • Up to 2 search conditions
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  • All journals included
  • Translated titles (8 languages)
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  • 10 papers per delivery
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