Keep up with literature

Notes from this post.

Reading techniques

• Use an app. I have been using Read RXMD. Others have mentioned PubCrawler, Google Scholar (updates feature), alerts from journals, Twitter, Pubchase, TOC of favorite journal, talk to others, readcube.
• Every morning, read abstracts. Save some relevant ones for later to read deeper.
• Every Friday use a regular time block to read in details of the most relevant ones. Blog about it or Twit it within 140 characters.
• Download all papers and read them in chunks.
• Summer is best time for reading.
• Keep organized and able to backtrack is most challenging.
• Need to draw a line between specificity and sensitivity.
• Write grants and papers.
• Play with different tools and establish a reading routine.

Read broader papers

• Papers that cited my papers
• Papers that cites an interesting paper or papers that the interesting paper cites
• Google search

Prioritize

• By Journal
• Crucial papers: from colleagues, conferences, meetings.
• Important papers will be cited so often that it is impossible to miss.
• Do not try to read all at once.

An update from Oct 2019

• I organize literature with mendeley which seems a very popular choice as of today.
• I use blogtrottr to subscribe RSS feeds from journals that sends me email of abstracts. I keep track of biorxiv papers this way.

Contact

Gao Wang