Research intelligence for CS papers — track what matters, who drives it, what to read first.
Stop skimming paper lists. ResearchScope scores, tags, and surfaces the papers that actually move your field.
ResearchScope is an open, static research intelligence dashboard for computer science papers. It is not primarily a CLI tool — it is a website that is rebuilt daily by a GitHub Actions pipeline and published to GitHub Pages.
The pipeline fetches papers from arXiv and ACL Anthology, enriches them with scores and
tags, detects research gaps, and writes the results as static JSON + HTML to the site/ folder.
The site then renders everything from those JSON files in the browser — no server required.
| Version | Highlight |
|---|---|
| 🆕 My Library | Save papers to a personal library stored in your browser (localStorage). Access saved papers anytime from the Papers page — no account or backend required. |
| Conference Recommender | Paste a title and abstract to get ranked venue matches with deadlines and reviewer expectations. |
| Daily arXiv fetch | Pipeline now fetches from all arXiv sources and surfaces the top 500 papers by score daily. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 📄 Paper intelligence | Papers from arXiv & ACL Anthology scored by recency, citation momentum, and relevance |
| 👩🔬 Author / lab intelligence | Track prolific authors and their recent output |
| 🗺 Learning paths | Curated reading paths tagged by topic and difficulty level |
| 🔍 Research gap explorer | Surface under-explored areas and emerging directions |
| 🎯 Conference recommender | Paste a title and abstract to get ranked venue matches, deadlines, reviewer expectations, and similar accepted papers |
| 📚 My Library | Save papers to a personal browser-local library with FIFO ordering and persistent state across reloads |
| 🖥 Static dashboard | Zero-backend site hosted on GitHub Pages, updated daily |
| Source | Content |
|---|---|
| arXiv | Preprints across CS, ML, NLP, CV, and related fields |
| ACL Anthology | Peer-reviewed NLP / CL papers from ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and others |
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GitHub Actions │
│ (runs daily via cron schedule) │
│ │
│ src/pipeline.py │
│ ├── connectors/ arXiv + ACL │
│ ├── scoring/ read-next rank │
│ ├── tagging/ topic tags │
│ ├── difficulty/ reading level │
│ ├── gaps/ gap detection │
│ └── sitegen/ → data/*.json │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
│ commits data/
▼
site/ (GitHub Pages)
index.html – dashboard homepage
papers.html – full paper list
authors.html – author profiles
gaps.html – research gap explorer
topics.html – topic browser
labs.html – lab profiles
assets/ – CSS + JS
data/ (symlink / copied) ← JSON from pipeline
.github/workflows/update.yml # daily pipeline + Pages deployment
src/
pipeline.py # orchestrates all stages
connectors/ # arXiv & ACL Anthology fetchers
scoring/ # read-next scoring
tagging/ # topic tagging
difficulty/ # difficulty assessment
gaps/ # research gap extraction
sitegen/ # writes data/*.json for the site
site/
index.html # homepage (published to GitHub Pages)
papers.html / authors.html … # sub-pages
conference-recommender.html # venue recommender (static, JS-powered)
library.html # My Library page (localStorage-backed)
assets/css/ assets/js/ # static assets
data/ # generated JSON (committed by CI)
tests/ # pytest test suite
# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/kishormorol/ResearchScope.git
cd ResearchScope
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run the pipeline locally (writes JSON to data/)
python src/pipeline.py
# Run tests
python -m pytest tests/ -v
# Open the site locally (serve site/ with any static server)
cd site && python -m http.server 8080The workflow in .github/workflows/update.yml:
- Runs the Python pipeline to fetch and process papers.
- Commits any changed JSON files in
data/. - Uploads the
site/folder as a GitHub Pages artifact and deploys it.
To enable Pages for a fork: go to Settings → Pages and set the source to GitHub Actions.
If you're evaluating ResearchScope against other tools:
| Tool | Free | Open source | Daily updates | Research gaps | Conference deadlines | No sign-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ResearchScope | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Arxiv Sanity | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Papers With Code | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Semantic Scholar | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Elicit | Partial | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Consensus | Partial | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
ResearchScope is the only fully free, open-source dashboard that combines daily paper rankings, research gap detection, and conference deadlines in one place — with zero backend.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
ResearchScope aggregates metadata from the following open academic resources. We are grateful to each for making their data publicly accessible.
| Source | What we use | License |
|---|---|---|
| arXiv | Paper metadata (title, abstract, authors, categories) | Metadata: CC0 (public domain) |
| ACL Anthology | NLP/CL paper metadata via anthology+abstracts.bib.gz |
2016+: CC BY 4.0 · Pre-2016: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
| PMLR | ICML proceedings metadata | CC BY 4.0 |
| Semantic Scholar | Conference paper metadata and author affiliations | See S2 API License |
ResearchScope stores only bibliographic metadata (titles, abstracts, authors, affiliations, URLs). No full paper text or PDFs are stored or redistributed. All papers link back to their original sources.
If you are a publisher and have concerns about how your content is represented, please open an issue.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to ResearchScope!
| Contributor | GitHub | Commits |
|---|---|---|
| Md Kishor Morol | @kishormorol | Project lead · architecture · pipeline |
| Shadril Hassan | @shadril238 | Contributor |
| Saad Chowdhury | @0Sa-ad0 | Contributor |
Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md.
MIT © 2026 Md Kishor Morol