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preprint-surveillance-finder

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Tracks the latest preprints and emerging research topics related to your topic across bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv. Use when a user wants to discover what is being published right now before it reaches journals, monitor competitor directions, spot new methodology trends, or get an early-warning scan of a research area. Triggers on phrases like "what's new in X", "latest preprints on Y", "emerging topics in Z", "monitor bioRxiv for", or "what are people working on in this field".

When to use

• Discovering the latest preprints on a specific topic (bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv q-bio)
• Monitoring a research area for new competitor directions or methodology shifts
• Getting a hot-topic landscape scan before writing an introduction or grant
• Identifying which sub-topics are gaining momentum in the last 1–4 weeks
• Finding early signals of a new research direction before it becomes crowded

When not to use

• Retrieving specific paper PDFs
• Performing statistical citation analysis
• Bibliometrics
• Non-biomedical topics outside life sciences

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