Journal Club · Keep up with the literature

Keep up with the literature: evidence that finds you.

A free monthly synthesis of the newest PubMed research on your topics, in medicine or any scientific field — the story, not a list of citations.

Free monthly · no credit card
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Keeping up with the literature

How most people keep up today, and what changes.

Alert facts quoted from My NCBI and Google Scholar help pages, 14 September 2026. Nothing here is wrong with alerts; they were built to notify, not to read. The full routine is in how to keep up with the literature; writing a review instead? See the AI literature review tools compared.
Keeping up today
Where papers come from
Journal table-of-contents emails, PubMed and Google Scholar alerts, social feeds, a colleague's forward.
How they are filtered
Keyword matching. A PubMed saved-search alert sends up to 200 new records at a time; a Scholar alert sends every new match, several times a week.
What lands in your inbox
Titles and abstracts. Whether any of it matters is for you to work out, one abstract at a time.
What it remembers
Nothing. The same paper resurfaces in three alerts and two table-of-contents emails.
Formats
One: the list.
Cost and effort
Free. The filtering and the reading are your time.
With Journal Club
Where papers come from
PubMed, read on a schedule against the topics and journals you chose.
How they are filtered
Screened for relevance to each topic: a paper has to be about your topic, not merely mention it.
What lands in your inbox
A written synthesis: what is new, which way the evidence moved, and the bottom line, with each paper cited and linked to PubMed.
What it remembers
What it has already sent you. Editions build on each other instead of repeating.
Formats
Seven rotating content types on Premium, from focused questions to methodology deep dives.
Cost and effort
Free monthly with any account, two topics. Premium $19.99 a month: weekly, up to five topics.
Free vs Premium

Monthly is free. Weekly is Premium.

Both send a genuine synthesis — findings weighed and connected, not a list of citations. Free is included with every account, delivered monthly. Premium goes weekly and deeper for $19.99/month.
Free
The Monthly Edition
Freeforever
  • ✓One journal club email per month (first weekend of the month)
  • ✓2 topics + 2 journals
  • ✓A curated roundup of new research in your chosen topics
  • ✓Evidence synthesis with linked, verifiable references
  • ✓A great starting point for staying current in your field
  • ✓Your first email arrives shortly after you save your topics — no credit card, no trial period
  • ✓Cost: Free, forever
Premium
The Weekly Edition
$19.99/ month
  • ✓One journal club email every weekend
  • ✓Up to 5 topics + 5 journals — broader, deeper personalization
  • ✓7 rotating content types (latest research, focused questions, landmark papers, historical narratives, methodology deep dives, clinical scenarios)
  • ✓Richer, more thorough analysis with deeper evidence synthesis
  • ✓"What's New" literature banner in every email scanning the past week's publications
  • ✓Content that tracks what you have already received — each edition builds on previous themes instead of restating them
  • ✓Cancel anytime
WKND
Delivery

Every issue lands over the weekend — timed for the uninterrupted reading weekdays do not allow. Settle in and spend 15 minutes with a structured, critical analysis of the evidence in your field.

Inside Premium

So what does deeper actually look like?

Everything on the Premium card, unpacked — the personalization, the rotation, the radar, and the memory.

Personalization

Your topics. Your field. Your evidence.

This is not a generic newsletter. You choose your topics and fields of interest — up to 5 for Premium subscribers. Every email is built from the published literature in those areas.

An orthopedic surgeon and an epidemiologist logging into PeerReviewAI on the same day will receive completely different journal club emails — because they are following completely different evidence.

Example · Cardiology
A cardiologist following interventional cardiology gets evidence on stent trials, anticoagulation, and catheter techniques — not dermatology papers.
Example · Public Health
A public health researcher following infectious disease epidemiology gets surveillance data, vaccine efficacy studies, and outbreak analyses — not bench science.
Topic validation
Every topic you enter is screened for scope and specificity. If a topic looks too narrow or off-target, it suggests a refinement before you save.
The rotation

Seven content types, chosen for each edition.

The format of each edition is chosen by how deep your coverage has gone. Across the full rotation, you cover your field from every angle — recent, foundational, methodological, applied.
01
Latest Research
What just published in your field this week, critically appraised and contextualized against the existing evidence base.
02
Focused Question
A specific clinical or research question drawn from the recent literature in your field, answered with the best available evidence.
03
Landmark Paper
A deep dive into a foundational paper in your field — what it established, what has challenged it since, and what it means for practice today.
04
Historical Narrative
A serialized look at how understanding evolved on a topic in your field — from early observations through conflicting evidence to modern consensus, across multiple weeks.
05
Methodology Deep Dive
A focused analysis of a research method relevant to your field — when to use it, common pitfalls, the reporting guideline that governs it, and what to watch for when reviewers critique it.
06
Clinical Scenario
A realistic case or research scenario that tests your ability to apply evidence to decision-making. Patient-centered for clinical fields; discipline-appropriate for non-clinical.
07
Second Focused Question
Another evidence-based question from a different angle. By the end of a full rotation, you have covered your field from multiple perspectives.
Cycle repeats
New papers, new questions, and seven distinct content formats — each edition builds on the coverage before it.
The radar

What's New — every single week.

Premium only

Every Premium email opens with a What's New banner — a scan of the most relevant publications in your field from the past week. A research radar that never turns off.

The memory

It remembers. It builds on every edition before it.

The published literature grows every week — new trials, new meta-analyses, new methods, old assumptions challenged. The Premium Journal Club draws from that continuously expanding evidence base. Always a new angle on a familiar topic.

Seven content types mean your field is approached from a different angle as your coverage deepens. The system tracks the conclusions it has sent you and builds on them rather than restating them. Themes from one email seed the questions in the next.

With a literature that grows every week and seven formats to approach it, there is always more to draw from. This is not a static newsletter — it is a living synthesis of the evidence in your field.

For anyone who has to keep up with the literature

Built for clinicians and researchers.

Up to 5 topics of interest
Orthopedic surgery and sports medicine. Oncology and immunotherapy. Epidemiology and biostatistics. Choose the combination that matches how you actually practice or research.
Clinical and non-clinical
The system classifies your field and tailors the content. Clinical fields get patient-centered scenarios; non-clinical fields get methodology- and discovery-oriented content.
Works on any device
Delivered as email — read it on your phone between cases or your laptop during a break. No app to download. No platform to log into.
The bigger picture

Beyond manuscript review.

PeerReviewAI started as a manuscript review platform. The Journal Club digest is the next step — an ecosystem for how scientific evidence is interpreted, synthesized, and acted on.

The review platform holds a manuscript to the standard of the published record. The journal club keeps you current with that record as it grows — the newest findings in your field, synthesized.

The review platform and the journal club are two sides of the same mission: bringing researchers closer to the truth in their field.

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