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: up to 10 subscriptions on Fellow and 25 on Chair. On the free plan the Radar page shows a live sample and an upgrade prompt.
Setting up subscriptions
Open Radar and click Add subscription. Folio tracks several kinds:
- Topic: a research area or keyword, searched across OpenAlex, arXiv, Europe PMC and DOAJ. A multi-word topic matches the phrase, not each word on its own.
- Author: follow a specific researcher's new output.
- Journal: new articles from a publication you care about.
- Citations: new papers that cite one of the sources in your library.
- Grant: funding calls from grant feeds.
- 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.
Reading the feed
The feed mixes everything you follow. At the top, you can tune the whole feed: the time window, a minimum citation count, open access only, and how results are sorted. Scholarly items show citation counts and open-access badges; news, tech and RSS items are exempt from those filters and sort newest first.
For each item you can:
- Save: adds it as a source, ready to read and cite.
- Dismiss: hides it from the feed. Dismissals are remembered in the browser you dismissed them in, so the item can reappear on another device or in your email digest.
Email digests
Radar can email you a digest so you do not have to remember to check. Set how often on the Radar page, or under Account settings → Notifications → Radar digest: daily or weekly (it is off until you choose). The digest only includes items it hasn't emailed you before and that aren't already in your library, and Send test emails you a one-off digest of your current feed at any time.