AudioScholarPapers
Lecture prep
Find the reviews worth reading
How the app works
Enter a topic and get narrative reviews and guidelines from the leading journals in your specialty — systematic reviews and meta-analyses filtered out — newest first, each with a link straight to full text through your library.
For learners
The papers a topic is built on
How the app works
Hunting the landmark trials on a topic? This searches PubMed for randomised trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and guidelines, then ranks them by how heavily the literature cites them — NIH iCite data, shown on every card. Heavy citation is where landmark papers usually live, but it is a measurement, not a judgement: the call stays yours. This is a focused slice of PubMed, not a systematic search: it ranks what PubMed returns for the words you type, so a narrower topic gives a sharper answer than a whole specialty. When what you type is ambiguous the page searches a clearer version of it, says so above the results, and leaves one tap to search exactly what you typed instead.
Paper access
Open any paper through your library
How the app works
Paste a link — a PubMed page, a DOI, or the journal's article page — and jump straight to your library sign-in for full text. If the link carries a DOI, it routes through that for reliability.
Make it one tap.
Bookmark this page, then jump here whenever you hit a paywall.
Skip the paste: add a link onto this page's address with ?url= — e.g. audioscholar.cc/ez.html?url=https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra2511692 — and it opens the library sign-in automatically. That's the URL to point a phone share-sheet action at.
Your proxied link
Open →At a different university?
Most libraries publish an EZProxy prefix ending in /login?url=.
Find yours by opening any article through your library and copying everything in the address bar
before the publisher's URL. The preview shows exactly what a link will open.
Used by both tabs. Saved on this device only.
Details — privacy, sources and what the numbers mean
Your searches. Searches go to PubMed directly from your browser, and no account is needed. AudioScholar records an anonymous count of searches run and papers opened — never your identity, never your IP address, never the links you paste or open, and never the words you type.
Find trials sends your words to a model. Two steps do: suggesting a clearer search when yours looks ambiguous, and putting the shortlist in reading order with a one-line reason on each paper. Those go to our server and on to Anthropic (Claude), and are not stored — what we keep is a one-way hash we cannot read back. Neither step is required: if either is unavailable the page ranks by citation rate on its own, and says so. Please don't type anything that identifies a patient.
Full text. A “Free full text” tag comes from PubMed’s own record — a PubMed Central deposit — with no extra lookup. If you press “Check for a free copy”, that one paper’s DOI goes to Unpaywall, a nonprofit index of legal free full text, directly from your browser and only when you press it. Otherwise full text depends on your library subscribing to that resource; you only ever enter your credentials on the library’s own sign-in page.
What the numbers mean. On Find trials, ranking uses citation data from NIH iCite, a public index run by the National Institutes of Health; those requests carry PubMed IDs and nothing about you. Citation counts measure attention, not quality or correctness, and a heavily cited paper can still have been superseded — guidelines are ordered by date and never by citations for exactly that reason. Impact factors describe the journal, never the individual paper.
What is in and what is out. Retracted publications and preprints are excluded. Publication types come from PubMed’s own indexing, so a review only appears if NLM tagged it as one.
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