Consistent research has shown that there can be up to a 17-year gap between when something is published in the scientific literature and when the public at large actually uses it. Not only that, only 14% of published articles filter down to the people who can benefit from them.

This huge gap creates many cascading consequences. Students may not be getting the most up-to-date information in their classes and studies. Commercial industries may not have an awareness of the current developments (and opportunities) in their field. And most importantly, patients are potentially not getting the best treatments available because medical professionals don’t know they exist

But why? Reading journal articles can be difficult. Many people don’t have full access to what journals have to offer. And, synthesizing research can be a long, trying process even for people who can access it.

PubTrawlr is a web-based application that collects, organizes, analyzes, summarizes, and recommends published studies. For a given search topic, it generates user-friendly charts & graphs, along with targeted article recommendations.

To accomplish this, PubTrawlr leverages advances in artificial intelligence to more effectively and efficiently process results. We talk more about our methods in this open-access article.

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We offer three services currently individual and organizational accounts. Our open search synthesizes the peer-reviewed literature on any scientific topic and is available at both free and premium subscription levels. The Premium Search pulls many more articles (potentially into the thousands) and implements more sophisticated algorithms to summarize the text.

We also take on commissioned projects for specialized needs. Reach out to us at projects@pubtrawlr.com for more information.