An editorial layer over your fields
Discover surfaces what a chronological feed would miss: top-cited work, hidden gems with outsized impact, and preprints ahead of print.
Research companion · iOS
Keep up with the literature, one swipe at a time.
JClub reads the firehose — 103 journals and the preprint servers — and hands you the papers worth your attention: one card at a time, each with a colour-coded AI summary and a link to the source of record.
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103tracked journals
10research fields
2preprint servers
AIsummary on every card
How it works
From firehose to feed in four steps.
Choose your journals
Pick from 103 titles across 10 fields — or start with a few keywords and let the feed learn what you care about.
Swipe through what’s new
The newest papers arrive as focused cards, one at a time. Swipe up when you’re done — the deck remembers where you left off.
Read the way you want
Lead with the colour-coded AI summary, tap through to the abstract, or open the paper itself — every card links to the source of record.
Let the signals find you
Follow authors, track keywords, and hear the moment a new paper cites your work.
Inside JClub
A feed that reads the way you do.
One paper at a time
No infinite scroll, no wall of tabs. Each new paper is a single card — swipe up when you’re done, and the deck remembers exactly where you left off.
Summaries you can scan in seconds
Every card opens with a colour-coded AI summary: the finding, why it matters, what they did, and the result — each in its own highlighter. The abstract and the paper itself are one tap away.
AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure from its sequence alone with near-experimental accuracy — a median backbone error of about 1 Å across the CASP14 blind assessment.
- Solving one protein structure experimentally can take years, so most known protein sequences have never had a structure.
- The team trained a neural network on known structures and evolutionary information, then submitted blind predictions to the CASP14 assessment.
- Predictions were competitive with experimental structures for most targets — accurate enough to power structural biology at proteome scale.
Alerts with a reason
Every notification answers three questions at a glance: which paper, why you, why now. Citations to your work lead; the rest is matched to the interests and journals you chose.
Connected appsNew
Save it in JClub. Cite it from Zotero or Mendeley.
Connect Zotero or Mendeley once, and every paper you save lands in a “JClub” collection or folder in your own library — ready in your reference manager when you sit down to write. No exports, no .bib files, nothing to remember.
- Add-only, by design. JClub only ever adds papers — it never edits or deletes anything in your library.
- Metadata, nothing else. Titles, authors, journals and identifiers — never PDFs, never your reading activity.
- Yours to revoke. Disconnect in Settings and JClub’s copy of your credentials is deleted on our side — for Zotero we also ask it to revoke the key, so you can verify it’s gone on your own Zotero keys page.
Zotero is a registered trademark of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship; Mendeley is a trademark of Elsevier. JClub is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
And then some
Everything else a researcher actually needs.
Search your whole corpus
One search across every paper JClub tracks — journals, preprints, and research news — ranked by relevance and recency.
Follow the people, not just the papers
Follow any author and hear the moment they publish. Filter their work by role — the same way you read a CV.
Full text through your library
Claim your institution and article opens route through your library's subscriptions — you sign in at your library's own page, and JClub never touches your credentials. Supported today at 39 Australian university libraries.
See the supported libraries
- Adelaide University
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- Bond University
- Central Queensland University
- Charles Darwin University
- Charles Sturt University
- Curtin University
- Deakin University
- Edith Cowan University
- Flinders University
- Griffith University
- James Cook University
- La Trobe University
- Macquarie University
- Monash University
- Murdoch University
- Queensland University of Technology
- RMIT University
- Southern Cross University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- The University of Adelaide
- University of Canberra
- The University of Melbourne
- University of New England
- University of Newcastle Australia
- The University of Notre Dame Australia
- The University of Queensland
- University of South Australia
- University of Southern Queensland
- The University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Technology Sydney
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- The University of Western Australia
- University of Wollongong
- UNSW Sydney
- Victoria University
- Western Sydney University
Not listed? Request your library from inside the app — it takes one tap.
Coverage
The journals that matter to your field.
JClub tracks 103 journals and both major preprint servers. The covers below are generated by JClub — the same way they appear in the app.
- General Science & Medicine13
- Cytometry Part A · eLife · JAMA
- Clinical Medicine10
- Ann Intern Med · Blood · BMJ
- Cell & Molecular Biology16
- Cell · Cell Metab · Cell Rep
- Immunology & Inflammation4
- Immunity · J Exp Med · Nat Immunol
- Neuroscience2
- Nat Neurosci · Neuron
- Genomics & Bioinformatics20
- Bioinformatics · Brief Bioinform · Cell Genom
- Microbiology & Mycology22
- Applied & Environ Microbio · Biotech Adv · Cell Host Microbe
- Oncology5
- Cancer Cell · Cancer Discov · Cancer Res
- Protected Cropping & Horticultural Science4
- Acta Hortic · Hortic Res · HortScience
- Plant Physiology & Photobiology7
- Environ Exp Bot · Funct Plant Biol · J Exp Bot
- Preprints2
- bioRxiv · medRxiv — the newest work, first
Your data, plainly
Built value-first, private by default.
Guest-first
Everything works without an account. Your choices stay on your device until you decide to sign in.
No data sales, no tracking
No data brokers, no tracking across apps, no third-party ad SDKs. Sponsored items, where they appear, are clearly labelled, sold by us directly, and never influence your ranking — advertisers get no data about you.
Source of record
Every card links to the publisher or repository of record. AI summaries assist — they never replace the paper.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
Do I need an account to use JClub?
No. JClub works as a guest from the first launch — browse the feed, read papers, and personalise by keywords without signing up. Anything you do as a guest stays on your device until you choose to sign in.
What data does JClub store about me?
Two things, and nothing more than we need. Your account basics (name, email, profile photo) once you sign in, and the things you create in the app — saved papers and lists, followed journals and authors, keyword alerts, and notification preferences. To rank your feed we also keep the keywords you choose and your in-app activity. As a guest, all of this lives only on your device.
Do you sell my data or run ads?
We never sell your personal data. JClub may show clearly labelled sponsored cards from organisations we work with directly — there are no third-party ad networks or trackers in the app, advertisers receive no data about you, and sponsored items never influence how your papers are ranked. We share data only with the infrastructure providers needed to run the service — never with data brokers or advertisers.
How accurate are the AI summaries?
AI summaries are a convenience generated from the paper's abstract — a fast way to scan, not a substitute for the source. They can miss nuance, so for anything that matters rely on the original paper, which every card links to.
Will I get the full text of papers?
Every card links to the paper at its source. If you claim your institution in the app, article opens route through your library's own sign-in — so anything your library subscribes to opens with full access. 39 Australian university libraries are supported today, and you sign in at your library's page: JClub never sees your credentials. Where a free open-access copy exists, the card offers that too.
Does JClub work with Zotero or Mendeley?
Yes, both. Connect your Zotero or Mendeley account once and every paper you save in JClub is automatically added to a “JClub” collection (Zotero) or folder (Mendeley) in your library — no exports, no .bib files. The sync is one-way and add-only: JClub sends bibliographic metadata (never PDFs or your reading activity), never edits or deletes anything in your library, and disconnecting deletes JClub’s access on our side (for Zotero we also ask it to revoke the key). Zotero is a registered trademark of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship and Mendeley is a trademark of Elsevier; JClub is independent and not affiliated with either.
Do you show the full paper abstract?
Every paper leads with a concise AI summary. For open-access papers whose licence permits it, the full original abstract is one tap away; for others we show the summary and link out to the publisher. Either way, every card links back to the source of record.
Is connecting my ORCID required?
No — ORCID is optional. If you connect it, we read your public scholarly profile (your works and topics) to sharpen personalisation. JClub works fully without it.
Can I delete my account and data?
Yes. In the app, Settings → Delete account permanently removes your account and associated data, or email support@jclub.com.au at any time.
More detail in the privacy policy.
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