You can follow new research in any RSS reader. PubMed makes a feed for any search, arXiv has a feed for every subject category, and most journals and preprint servers publish a feed of their newest papers. Below are the steps, and 47 feeds that work, checked on September 27, 2026. Click a feed's name to add it to Feeder, or copy its URL into any RSS reader.
How do I create a PubMed RSS feed?
PubMed turns any search into a feed, and you don't need an NCBI account for it:
- Go to pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and run your search.
- Click Create RSS, under the search box.
- Give the feed a name (it starts as your search terms) and pick the Number of items displayed: 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 or 100.
- Click Create RSS. PubMed shows the feed link. Click Copy.
- Paste the link into your RSS reader. In Feeder, paste it into Add feed.
The link starts with https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rss/search/ and includes limit=15, or the number you picked. Change that number to show up to 200 items, as PubMed's help explains. Your reader then picks up new papers that match your search.
Any search works, so you can follow an author (brody[au]), a journal ("science"[ta]) or a topic. PubMed's other option, Create alert, sends results by e-mail instead and needs a My NCBI account.
Feeder also lists National Center for Biotechnology under Pharmaceutical research on its Add feed screen: a guided version of these steps that comes with Plus ($7.99 a month, billed yearly). You don't need it. A PubMed link pasted into Add feed works like any other feed.
How do I get arXiv RSS feeds?
arXiv has an RSS feed and an Atom feed for every active subject category. Put the category name after https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/, for example https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CL for computation and language. For Atom, use https://rss.arxiv.org/atom/ instead.
arXiv updates the feeds once a day, at midnight US Eastern time, with that day's new papers. There are no updates on Saturday and Sunday, and on those days a feed can look empty in your browser. That is normal: your reader keeps the papers it has already collected.
| Feed | Category | Feed URL |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence | cs.AI | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.ai |
| Machine learning | cs.LG | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.LG |
| Computation and language | cs.CL | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CL |
| Computer vision | cs.CV | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CV |
| Cryptography and security | cs.CR | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CR |
| Robotics | cs.RO | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.RO |
| All of computer science | cs | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs |
| Machine learning (statistics) | stat.ML | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/stat.ML |
| Mathematics | math | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/math |
| Physics | physics | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/physics |
| Astrophysics | astro-ph | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/astro-ph |
| Condensed matter | cond-mat | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cond-mat |
| High energy physics, theory | hep-th | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/hep-th |
| Quantum physics | quant-ph | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/quant-ph |
| Quantitative biology | q-bio | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/q-bio |
| Quantitative finance | q-fin | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/q-fin |
| Economics | econ | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/econ |
To follow several categories in one feed, join them with a plus sign:
| Feed | Feed URL |
|---|---|
| AI and machine learning together | https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.ai+cs.LG |
Every category and its short name is in arXiv's category list, and arXiv's RSS help page has the details.
Can I get an RSS feed for an arXiv search?
Yes, through the arXiv API. It returns search results as an Atom feed, which any RSS reader can follow. Sort by submission date, newest first, so new papers come in at the top:
| Feed | Feed URL |
|---|---|
| arXiv search: "large language model" | https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:%22large+language+model%22&sortBy=submittedDate&sortOrder=descending&max_results=50 |
Change the words between %22 signs to your own search. To search by author, use au: instead of all:, for example search_query=au:hinton. The arXiv API manual lists every search option. arXiv asks you to review its API terms of use before you use its feeds or the API.
RSS feeds for scientific journals
| Journal | What you get | Feed URL |
|---|---|---|
| Nature | New research papers and news. | https://www.nature.com/nature.rss |
| Nature Communications | New papers. | https://www.nature.com/ncomms.rss |
| Nature Medicine | New papers. | https://www.nature.com/nm.rss |
| Scientific Reports | New papers. | https://www.nature.com/srep.rss |
| Science | The table of contents of each weekly issue. | https://www.science.org/action/showFeed?type=etoc&feed=rss&jc=science |
| Science Advances | The table of contents of each issue. | https://www.science.org/action/showFeed?type=etoc&feed=rss&jc=sciadv |
| Science: news | News stories from Science's news team. | https://www.science.org/rss/news_current.xml |
| Cell | The current issue. | https://www.cell.com/cell/current.rss |
| PNAS | The table of contents of each issue. | https://www.pnas.org/action/showFeed?type=etoc&feed=rss&jc=PNAS |
| The New England Journal of Medicine | The table of contents of each issue. | https://www.nejm.org/action/showFeed?jc=nejm&type=etoc&feed=rss |
| The Lancet | The current issue. | https://www.thelancet.com/rssfeed/lancet_current.xml |
| JAMA | The current issue. | https://jamanetwork.com/rss/site_3/67.xml |
| The BMJ | The latest articles. | https://www.bmj.com/rss/recent.xml |
| eLife | The latest articles. | https://elifesciences.org/rss/recent.xml |
| PLOS ONE | New articles. | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/feed/atom |
| PLOS Biology | New articles. | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/feed/atom |
| PLOS Medicine | New articles. | https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/feed/atom |
Following Science at an old sciencemag.org address? Those addresses stopped working in May 2026. Switch to the science.org feeds above.
How do I find the RSS feed for any journal?
- Look on the journal's site. Most journals have an RSS link or icon on their home page or current issue page.
- Know the big publishers. Journals on ScienceDirect (Elsevier), Wiley Online Library, SpringerLink and Taylor & Francis Online each have a feed per journal.
- Let your reader find it. Paste the journal's web address into Feeder's Add feed. When the page links to a feed, Feeder finds it.
- No feed at all? In Feeder, choose Create a custom RSS feed for this website and pick the list of new articles on the page. See How to follow a website that does not support RSS.
bioRxiv and medRxiv RSS feeds
bioRxiv and medRxiv each have a feed of their 30 most recent preprints, for all subjects or for one subject. Put the subject after subject=, with underscores between the words, and join subjects with a plus sign, like subject=genomics+bioinformatics. The subject lists are on the bioRxiv and medRxiv alerts pages.
| Feed | Feed URL |
|---|---|
| bioRxiv: all subjects | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=all |
| bioRxiv: Bioinformatics | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=bioinformatics |
| bioRxiv: Genomics | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=genomics |
| bioRxiv: Neuroscience | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=neuroscience |
| bioRxiv: Cancer biology | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=cancer_biology |
| bioRxiv: Immunology | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=immunology |
| bioRxiv: Microbiology | https://connect.biorxiv.org/biorxiv_xml.php?subject=microbiology |
| medRxiv: all subjects | https://connect.medrxiv.org/medrxiv_xml.php?subject=all |
| medRxiv: Infectious diseases | https://connect.medrxiv.org/medrxiv_xml.php?subject=infectious_diseases |
| medRxiv: Epidemiology | https://connect.medrxiv.org/medrxiv_xml.php?subject=Epidemiology |
| medRxiv: Oncology | https://connect.medrxiv.org/medrxiv_xml.php?subject=Oncology |
Does Google Scholar have RSS feeds?
No. Google Scholar sends new results by e-mail, and its help page describes e-mail alerts only. You can still read those alerts in an RSS reader that turns e-mail into a feed. In Feeder:
- Click Add feed, choose Newsletters and copy your Feeder e-mail address. More in Read your e-mail newsletters in Feeder.
- In Google Scholar, run your search, click the envelope icon, paste your Feeder address and click Create alert.
- Scholar first sends a link to confirm the address. It shows up in Feeder as a post. Open it and click the link.
From then on, each Scholar alert arrives in Feeder as a new post. The same trick works for journal alerts that only come by e-mail.
How do I keep up with busy research feeds?
arXiv's computer science category had 846 new papers in its latest daily listing. A few habits keep that manageable:
- One folder per project. Put the feeds for each project in a folder and read them as one list.
- Filter by keyword. On Plus ($7.99 a month, billed yearly), Feeder's filters can keep only the papers that mention your keywords, or hide the ones you never want. See how keywords match.
- Get notified about the few that matter. Turn on notifications for a narrow PubMed search, so you hear about a new paper as soon as Feeder picks it up.
Common questions
Why is my arXiv RSS feed empty?
arXiv doesn't announce new papers on Saturday and Sunday, so its feeds have no items on those days. Papers you already have stay in your reader, and new ones arrive after midnight US Eastern time on the next weekday.
How many papers can a PubMed RSS feed show?
Up to 100 from the menu, and up to 200 if you change the limit= number in the feed link.
Can I get an RSS feed for new papers by one author?
Yes. In PubMed, search for the author with [au] and create an RSS feed for that search. On arXiv, use an API search with au:.
Are these research feeds free?
Yes. PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and the journal feeds on this page are free to follow, with no account.
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