How many PubMed alerts do you have? And would you be willing to share your list?

I don’t have so many now. I used to have 70 or 80, probably, but now I have a couple of research assistants, and I’ve found it to be more efficient for them to handle that stuff, so I don’t have a list, per se, anymore, but I’ll tell you how I made my list. Any topic that I was interested in, I went to PubMed and I did an advanced search and I honed the search terms. I think I mentioned this last time. I usually, not always, but will often choose search terms in the titles of articles rather than just appearing anywhere. I’ve found that that does a better job of getting me what I’m looking for. Then once I see those results, I just save that as an alert, because if I’m searching for that topic now and I’m interested in it, I generally will want to see when any new research is published on that topic. That’s how I built up my results, and then I put them all into an RSS program, and then I can just pass those off. I just ended up passing those off to my research assistants. It’s very easy to do, and all you need to do is make lists of the things that you’re interested in and do some searching in PubMed and you’ll have a great list after a relatively short time.