About IBD LitMonitor
What is IBD LitMonitor?
IBD LitMonitor provides comprehensive daily coverage of IBD literature, organized by sub-fields so you can quickly find what’s relevant to your work.
Why Not Just Use PubMed Alerts?
PubMed alerts are a reasonable starting point, but they have a key limitation: they give you a flat, unsorted list. If you set up an alert for “inflammatory bowel disease,” every matching paper arrives in the same inbox pile - therapeutics next to epidemiology next to basic science - and you still have to read through everything to find what’s relevant to your work.
IBD LitMonitor takes a different approach. Instead of delivering a raw feed, it organizes papers into sub-fields so you can go straight to the domain you care about and skip the rest. Each category is collapsible, so browsing the day’s literature takes minutes rather than a lengthy inbox triage.
How It Works
Daily process:
- Search PubMed across category-specific query groups
- Deduplicate results by PMID
- Categorize into sub-fields using keyword scoring
- Sort by publication date (newest first within each category)
- Publish updated website, RSS feed, and per-category RSS feeds
About the Creator
Citation
Alsoud D. (2026). IBD LitMonitor: Systematic literature monitoring for inflammatory bowel disease research. https://dahhamalsoud.github.io/ibd-litmonitor