Paper Digest

Paper Digest is an academic research platform offering citation-backed literature reviews, a PDF reader, an academic writer, claim verification and daily digests across arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, clinical trials and major conferences.

Paper Digest is a research platform that groups several academic workflows under one roof: literature review, deep research reports, a PDF reader with question answering, an academic writer, claim verification, a side-by-side literature matrix, a personal research library and a search console covering papers, patents, grants and people. The company is based in New York City, has operated since 2018 and says more than three million users from universities, companies and government agencies rely on it. Visitors can try the main tools without signing in. The most distinctive design choice is how the literature review generator works. Instead of leaning on a large language model, the platform says its review tool avoids them entirely because of their tendency to produce unjustified statements, and it attaches a citation to every sentence it generates. That makes it a fit for researchers who care more about traceability than fluent prose. The underlying data comes from a technology knowledge graph that is updated in real time from hundreds of sources and ranks new documents by likely impact. Coverage extends beyond papers to clinical trials, software, venues and domain experts, and users can narrow results by research area, document type, venue, time range or author. A second half of the site is devoted to digests. Daily digests follow arXiv, bioRxiv, PubMed and ClinicalTrials, with the arXiv, bioRxiv, ClinicalTrials and PubMed feeds labelled free. Topic tracking lists the 20 most important new papers each week across more than 200 categories, plus 58 narrower special topics. Conference digests summarize every paper from a venue in one sentence, and best-paper lists reach back decades for venues such as ACL, CVPR and NeurIPS. Students, lab members, analysts and R&D teams who must keep pace with a fast-moving literature are the natural audience. Compared with chat-style research assistants, Paper Digest is more of a structured toolkit, with discovery, reading, writing and tracking spread across separate consoles rather than a single conversation.