How we list studies

Bored Studies lists individual research studies so you can see what is actually recruiting near you, then apply directly with the research team. Here is exactly where the listings come from and what we do (and don’t do) with them.

Source

Listings come from ClinicalTrials.gov, the public registry run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, through its official API. We don’t scrape research sites or bypass any access controls. Each study links back to its official record, which lists the study team’s contacts.

Right now the directory has 7,120 recruiting studies, last refreshed on 2026-10-26 (snapshot built 2026-10-26).

Which studies we include

Recruiting on ClinicalTrials.gov, with at least one recruiting site in the United States, and either accepting healthy volunteers or an industry-sponsored interventional study. Cancer treatment studies are excluded unless they accept healthy volunteers.

Bored Studies’ focus is still paid Phase 1 research for healthy volunteers. Studies for people with specific conditions are labeled by topic so they’re easy to tell apart, and many of them need a diagnosis to join.

Keeping listings current

• Only studies whose official status is “Recruiting” are shown as opportunities, and only their recruiting U.S. sites are listed.
• Every study page re-checks the official record at least every 12 hours. If a study has closed, completed, been suspended or withdrawn, the page says so, the apply button is removed, and the page is dropped from search engines.
• A scheduled sync re-reads the whole registry query, adds new studies, records changes and retires studies that no longer recruit. If a sync returns far fewer studies than expected, nothing is removed and the run is flagged for review.
• Duplicates are merged by NCT number, the registry’s unique study ID.

Compensation

Pay is shown only for studies whose research company posts the exact amount on that study’s own page. Each of those listings links straight to the study page where you apply, and shows the amount exactly as posted (usually an “up to” figure for completing every visit), with the date we checked it.

ClinicalTrials.gov has no compensation field, so registry listings show no amount unless the official record itself states one, quoted word for word. We never estimate pay or show ranges for a study.

Categories and groups

Study types (for example sleep or dermatology) are assigned from what the official record says the study is about: its conditions, keywords and title. Age and sex groups come only from the record’s eligibility limits. Pregnancy and breastfeeding pages list a study only when pregnancy or lactation is the subject of the record. Fitting a group never means you qualify; the research team decides at screening.

Which pages appear in search engines

A browse page (a study type, a place, a pay range or a combination) is only offered to search engines when it has at least 3 current listings and isn’t a copy of a broader page. Empty or thin combinations still work for visitors, with related options, but are marked noindex and left out of the sitemap.

What we are not

We don’t conduct research, recruit for sponsors, screen participants, decide eligibility, or guarantee enrollment or payment. Nothing here is medical advice. Spotted a problem with a listing? Tell us.