# PaperPulse

PaperPulse is a trending arXiv paper tracker for researchers, builders, and technical reviewers.

## What It Does

- Displays recent arXiv papers by category.
- Adds GitHub repository stats when public repository links are found.
- Adds Semantic Scholar citation, reference, and influential-citation stats when available.
- Shows an explainable trend score for each paper.
- Lets users save papers to a local browser watchlist.
- Exports selected papers and watchlists as plain-text research briefs.
- Includes a Chrome extension for tracking paper pages from arXiv, alphaXiv, Hugging Face Papers, and Papers with Code.

## Privacy

Watchlists stay in browser storage. The server caches public paper metadata and does not require an account.

## Limitations

PaperPulse is not affiliated with arXiv, alphaXiv, Hugging Face, Papers with Code, GitHub, or Semantic Scholar. Third-party API rate limits can delay stats. Trend scores are ranking hints, not scientific quality judgments.