# CupQ: A New Clinical Literature Search Engine

## TL;DR

CupQ is a novel clinical literature search engine designed to improve the relevance of search results for medical practitioners by filtering, ranking, and categorizing biomedical literature.

## Contribution

It introduces a new ranking algorithm that filters non-medical journals and organizes results into clinically useful categories, enhancing relevance over PubMed.

## Key findings

- CupQ may return more clinically relevant results than PubMed.
- Qualitative comparisons favor CupQ's filtering and categorization approach.
- CupQ is publicly available at https://cupq.io/.

## Abstract

A new clinical literature search engine, called CupQ, is presented. It aims to help clinicians stay updated with medical knowledge. Although PubMed is currently one of the most widely used digital libraries for biomedical information, it frequently does not return clinically relevant results. CupQ utilizes a ranking algorithm that filters non-medical journals, compares semantic similarity between queries, and incorporates journal impact factor and publication date. It organizes search results into useful categories for medical practitioners: reviews, guidelines, and studies. Qualitative comparisons suggest that CupQ may return more clinically relevant information than PubMed. CupQ is available at https://cupq.io/.