What is Scholar Inbox?
Scholar Inbox is a personal paper recommender for scientists, built by Andreas Geiger's Autonomous Vision Group at the University of Tübingen. Every day it indexes arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, ChemRxiv and open access computer science conference proceedings, then picks out the new papers most relevant to you.
When you sign up you rate a set of papers as relevant or not, and Scholar Inbox trains a recommendation model just for you. Recommendations are based on the content of each paper rather than social media buzz, so quieter but relevant work still reaches you. You get the results as a daily or weekly digest, and each vote you give later sharpens the model. The platform also offers semantic search, visual paper summaries and a map of science that shows how research areas relate. The team behind it has published a paper on the system and says it plans to keep the service free.
Main Features
- Personal AI model trained on your own ratings
- Daily or weekly digests of new papers
- Covers arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, ChemRxiv and CS proceedings
- Recommendations based on paper content, not hype
- Semantic search and a map of science
How to Get Started with Scholar Inbox
- Go to scholar-inbox.com and create a free account.
- Rate a set of sample papers as relevant or not relevant.
- Choose whether you want daily or weekly digests.
- Keep voting on recommended papers to improve your feed.
Scholar Inbox Pricing
Scholar Inbox is free. It is run by the University of Tübingen, which says it plans to keep the service free of charge.
Who Should Use It?
- PhD students keeping up with arXiv
- Machine learning and computer vision researchers
- Life scientists following bioRxiv and medRxiv
- Lab leads who want a short daily reading list
- Anyone overwhelmed by new preprints
Scholar Inbox Alternatives
- ResearchRabbit: Literature discovery app that maps related papers and authors.
- Semantic Scholar: Free AI-powered search engine for scientific papers.
- Scite.ai: Shows how papers have been cited, supporting or contrasting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Scholar Inbox free?
Yes. Scholar Inbox is free to use, and the University of Tübingen team says it intends to keep it that way.
Which sources does Scholar Inbox cover?
It indexes arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and ChemRxiv daily, plus open access proceedings from major machine learning, computer vision and NLP conferences.
How does it learn what I like?
You rate papers when you sign up and as you use it, and it trains a recommendation model for you from those positive and negative ratings.