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Monitor: Get Alerts for Important Research
Monitor: Get Alerts for Important Research

Here's how to Monitor your Litmaps searches, so you instantly get notified for important, new articles on your topic.

Marina Kisley avatar
Written by Marina Kisley
Updated over a week ago

New research is constantly being published. So, how do you ensure your research doesn't get out-of-date?

Use Litmaps Monitor to get instant email alerts whenever a new article on your topic is published. It's based on your exact searches, so you will only see papers that are strictly relevant to you.

All users (including free users) can use Litmaps Monitor, but only Pro users can customize their alerts.


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How to use Litmaps Monitor to stay up-to-date

You can use Litmaps Monitor to automatically check your existing Litmaps for any newly added articles. If a new article is released on your topic, you'll get an email about it.

Monitor is based on a specific search you create, which makes the results highly relevant for you.

Here's how to use Litmaps Monitor:

  1. Go to the Litmaps app

  2. Select an existing Litmap, or create a new Litmap on your research

  3. Click "Enable Automatic Monitoring"

  4. Click "Enable Monitor"

Litmaps will now email you when new articles are published on your topic.

You can also use this page to view previous results Litmaps Monitor finds.

How to customize Litmaps Monitor alerts?

With Litmaps Pro, you can customize the alerts you get from Litmaps Monitor. This helps target your alerts even better, and only get notifications for the most relevant articles on your topic.


To customize your Monitor alerts:

  1. Enable monitoring (follow the steps above)

  2. Click "Edit Monitor Settings"

  3. You can customize:

    1. Search Frequency (Weekly or Monthly)

    2. Change the search algorithm

    3. Add filters

How does Monitor work?

Litmaps runs a search on your Map at the time interval set, using either the specific settings (for Pro users), or the default algorithm (for free users).

Hundreds of thousands of new articles are added to the Litmaps database each week, which may contain new research relevant to your topic. With Monitor, you'll automatically learn about these publications.

How to edit or cancel a monitored search?

Go to the Monitor Settings of your Map to cancel or edit it anytime.

  1. Go to your Litmap

  2. Click on "Monitoring Enabled"

  3. Click "Monitor Settings"

  4. Toggle the "Enabled" switch


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