Weekly email briefing
Your highest-ranked new papers are delivered by email on the day you choose, each with a concise four-sentence summary and a direct link to the original research.
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- Ranked papers
- Four-sentence summaries
NeuroBriefer
Personalised weekly neuroscience research briefings
Set your research interests once. NeuroBriefer ranks new neuroscience papers against them, sends you a weekly email briefing, and keeps everything available in your personal research library.
Yes, NeuroBriefer is completely free to use.
Your briefing, in your inbox and on the web
Your NeuroBriefer library
Log in at any time to browse your full weekly recommendations, revisit previous weeks, search your database, save papers, add notes and build collections.
- Search previous weeks
- Save papers
- Add notes
- Build collections
Published papers and preprints
Published papers are included in every briefing. You can also include relevant bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints.
Published papersbioRxiv · optionalmedRxiv · optional
How NeuroBriefer works
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Choose your research interests
Add the topics, concepts and methods you care about.
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NeuroBriefer finds the new papers
New neuroscience papers are added each week and matched to your interests.
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Papers are ranked for relevance
New papers are ranked against your interests, with the most relevant selected for your weekly briefing.
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Get your weekly briefing
Receive your top papers by email, each with a concise four-sentence summary.
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Keep everything in the web app
Search previous weeks, save papers, add notes and build collections.
See NeuroBriefer in action
See how to sign up and build your first collection in about 90 seconds.
Explore the NeuroBriefer web app
Browse the main features using real views from NeuroBriefer.
Dashboard
A weekly literature feed shaped by your research interests
Review new recommendations in one consistent workspace, then decide what deserves closer attention.
- Papers ranked by relevance to your research interests
- Open-access and full-text links where available
- Four-sentence summaries for every recommendation
- Notes and quick paper actions
- Keyword and database search
- Access to recommendations from previous weeks
- Choose how many recommendations to view each week
- Light and dark display modes
Why NeuroBriefer was built
NeuroBriefer is the brainchild (pun intended) of Damien Boorman — a postdoctoral neuroscience researcher who, like many researchers, found there were simply too many new papers to keep up with. Searches, alerts and newsletters helped, but never quite solved the problem: seeing the new work most relevant to his own research each week.
He built NeuroBriefer as a simple way to find, understand and keep track of new neuroscience literature. It helps bring relevant work into view while leaving the reading, interpretation and scientific judgement where they belong — with the researcher.
Is NeuroBriefer really free?
Yes. NeuroBriefer is completely free to use.
NeuroBriefer was built as a contribution to the neuroscience community. The aim is to make it easier for researchers to discover, understand and share new work — and to help build a community around the enormous amount of neuroscience being published every week.
Keeping NeuroBriefer free means that access doesn't depend on career stage, institution or research budget. If it helps more researchers find useful papers, share them with colleagues and keep up with work across neuroscience, then it is doing what it was built to do.
Designed as a research tool
NeuroBriefer is designed to help neuroscientists find relevant new literature, not replace literature searching or scientific judgement. Recommendations are based on the research interests you provide, summaries are generated from article metadata and abstracts, and every recommendation links back to the original research.
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Set your research interests and receive your personalised neuroscience briefing each week.
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