Workflow

Literature Tracker — Research Paper Monitor to Google Sheets

Automatically track new research papers on your PhD topic. Runs twice a week, searches PubMed for the latest publications, extracts structured metadata (title, journal, authors, year, abstract, techniques, knowledge gaps, conclusion), saves results to Google Sheets, and emails you a summary. Built for researchers who want to stay current without manual literature searches.

selma yagoub

Last updated

February 18, 2026

Connectors used

Google Sheets
Google Mail

Tags

researchliterature-reviewpubmedgoogle-sheetsemailacademiascience

About this Template

Automatically track new research papers on your PhD topic. Runs twice a week, searches PubMed for the latest publications, extracts structured metadata (title, journal, authors, year, abstract, techniques, knowledge gaps, conclusion), saves results to Google Sheets, and emails you a summary. Built for researchers who want to stay current without manual literature searches.

Created by selma yagoub

This workflow template was created and shared by selma yagoub as part of the Needle community templates program.

How to Use

  1. Click "Use Template" to add this workflow to your account
  2. Connect the required integrations
  3. Customize the workflow to fit your needs
  4. Enable the trigger to start automating!

*This is a community-contributed template.

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