11. A machine-implemented method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system, the method comprising: identifying a set of documents from a particular time period classified as relevant to a set of categories of a recurring search; defining a GUI for displaying the identified set of documents to a user, the GUI comprising a display area for each of the categories in the set; and for each particular category displayed in the category display area, presenting the set of documents relevant to the particular category in a particular order derived from (i) an analysis of a user's profile information, (ii) the relevance of the document to the particular category, (iii) the source of viewed documents in previous document viewing patterns of the user, and (iv) the relevance of viewed documents in the previous document viewing patterns of the user to the recurring search, wherein the particular order displays the documents based on the importance of each displayed document to the recurring search.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the particular order for a particular user is derived based on analysis of previous document viewing patterns of the user.