About PaperDojo
PaperDojo helps researchers discover, learn, and retain scientific papers relevant to their work.
PaperDojo is a structured way to stay current with the scientific literature in your field. Instead of manually searching, skimming, and forgetting papers, PaperDojo delivers relevant research one paper at a time and helps you actively learn it.
Each session focuses on a real paper matched to your research interests, followed by short questions that test whether you understood the key ideas and results.
How PaperDojo Works
PaperDojo is designed to fit naturally into an active research workflow.
1. Define Your Research Focus: Describe your project, field, and interests. PaperDojo builds a personalized feed of relevant papers drawn from sources such as PubMed and bioRxiv.
2. Learn One Paper at a Time: Each session presents a real research paper along with a concise summary highlighting the main findings and context. You review the paper's core ideas rather than skimming abstracts or accumulating unread PDFs.
3. Test and Reinforce Understanding: After reading, you answer three short comprehension questions that check whether you understood the paper's key claims and results. This reinforces learning and helps identify gaps in understanding.
Why PaperDojo
- Focused on discovering papers relevant to your project, not generic reading
- Encourages learning papers deeply instead of passively bookmarking them
- Uses short sessions that fit into busy research schedules
- Helps reinforce understanding through brief comprehension checks
- Designed to support ongoing engagement with the literature
Pricing
PaperDojo Pro is $20/month. One plan, everything included: project-specific literature feeds, paper summaries, comprehension quizzes, and your saved-paper library.
Free for academic researchers. If you sign in with an academic email
address (any .edu address today, with more institutional domains added over time),
PaperDojo Pro is granted to your account at no cost — no card, no trial clock. Academic access
is a standing privilege for people doing research, not a limited-time promotion.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does PaperDojo help me do?
PaperDojo helps you find relevant scientific papers, learn their key ideas, and reinforce understanding through short comprehension questions.
Is PaperDojo free?
It is free for academic researchers. Sign in with an academic email address and PaperDojo Pro is granted to your account automatically. For everyone else, PaperDojo Pro is $20/month. See Pricing.
What research areas are supported?
PaperDojo currently focuses on biomedical and life sciences research, drawing from PubMed and bioRxiv. Additional areas may be added in the future.
How are papers selected?
Papers are matched to your research focus and project description, prioritizing relevance and recent work.
Who is PaperDojo for?
PaperDojo is built for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and industry scientists who want a more systematic way to stay current with the literature relevant to their work.
Contact
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