Who works on your topic, and where?
LabScout reads the key papers on a topic from PubMed and Europe PMC, finds the lab behind each one, puts the labs on a map and says why each came up.
Try: actigraphy sleep regularity circadian rhythm shift work chronotype adolescents "social jetlag" wearable step count mortality (actigraphy OR accelerometry) AND depression
How it works
- 1. Type a topicA few key words, or a PubMed search with quotes, OR and NOT.
- 2. LabScout reads the papersThe 10,000 best matches on PubMed and the 10,000 most cited on Europe PMC, in the years you choose.
- 3. It finds the lab behind each paperThe last author usually leads the lab. Their affiliation is matched to an organisation in the Research Organization Registry.
- 4. You see who works on it, and whereA map, a table with the reason each lab came up and its papers, and Excel, CSV or JSON.
Search tips
| To find | Type |
|---|---|
| Papers on a topic | actigraphy sleep regularity |
| An exact phrase | "sleep regularity index" |
| Either of two words | actigraphy OR accelerometry |
| Without a word | circadian NOT mice |
| A word in the title or abstract only | chronotype[tiab] adolescents |
| Groups put together | (actigraphy OR accelerometry) AND depression |
Too many papers? Add a word, use quotes or narrow the years. Too few? Use fewer words or OR. The report says which, and shows how PubMed read your search.
Reading the results
- Each lab is named after the last author of its papers, who usually leads it. Older PubMed records give only the first author's affiliation; then the lab is placed there.
- Organisations are matched automatically. In Excel, the column match says how each one was found: check it before you write to anyone.
- One person at two places is one lab when it is clearly the same person: the same city, or the same ORCID iD. Otherwise the name shows twice, because it may be two people.
- LabScout shows what researchers have published. Use it to find research and collaborators, not to judge people.
Use it from your AI assistant
LabScout is also an MCP server with tools for labs, papers, researcher profiles, grants, trials and patents. Add this address as a custom connector in an assistant that supports MCP:
https://actogram-labscout.hf.space/mcp
Then ask in plain words, for example:
- Find labs working on sleep regularity in older adults since 2021 and list the ten top ones with their organisations.
- Make a profile of Susan Redline: topics, frequent co-authors and NIH grants.
- Which registered studies on actigraphy and sleep are recruiting now?
Run it yourself
The code is on GitHub. It installs with pip install "labscout @ git+https://github.com/actogram/scholar-mcp" and
then runs as labscout labs "your topic" --html labs.html.