What Research Radar does
Radar watches your field for you. You set up subscriptions — a topic, an author, a journal — and Folio surfaces new and relevant work as it appears, so you are not re-running the same searches every week. You can save anything it finds straight to your library.
Radar is part of the paid plans (Fellow and Chair). On the free plan you will see an upgrade prompt on the Radar page.
Setting up subscriptions
Open Radar from the navigation bar and click + Add to create a subscription. Folio tracks several kinds:
- Topic — a research area or keyword, drawn from Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex.
- Author — follow a specific researcher's new output.
- Journal — new articles from a publication you care about.
- News, Tech, and RSS — Radar is not only for papers. Add a Google News keyword, a Hacker News topic, or any RSS/Atom feed (a blog, a newsroom, a Substack, a journal's feed) to keep an industry pulse alongside the literature.
Each subscription can be tuned — recency, a minimum citation count, open-access only, and how results are sorted.
Reading the feed
The feed mixes everything you follow. For each item you can:
- Save to library — adds it as a source, ready to read and cite.
- Dismiss — hides it so it does not come back.
Scholarly items show citation counts and open-access badges; news items are exempt from those filters and sort by publish date.
Email digests
Radar can email you a digest so you do not have to remember to check. In the Radar page, set your digest frequency to daily or weekly (it is off by default — you opt in). The digest only includes items you have not already seen, and you can send yourself a test digest at any time to preview it.