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Two independent ways to receive the same curated literature — an email on a schedule you pick, and a continuously updated feed you visit when you want. Both draw on the topic and journal preferences below. Turning both off stops all processing.

Toggle topics on or off, set a weight (1–10), and add your own PubMed search terms in the box below each topic. Terms are searched as [tiab] (title & abstract) and OR'd with the built-in query.

Journal impact is always factored into your digest rankings. Articles in higher-impact journals receive more weight, but topic relevance remains the anchor so prestige helps without completely overwhelming the rest of the list.

Your daily feed also watches which articles you open and save, and nudges the ranking toward what you actually read. It is a correction, never a veto: the adjustment is capped at 0.85×–1.20×, so your topic weights above always decide the shape of the feed. A topic you have never been shown, or one you engage with at your usual rate, sits at 1.00×. Clearing an article without opening it counts as a skip, not as a read.

These toggles are the single control over which study types appear in your digest — only the types switched on are searched. Letters & comments, conference abstracts, veterinary studies, and retracted/corrected articles are always excluded.