Staying on top of research

Getting started

Visualping Feedly

Identify key papers that are relevant for your research and follow it on Google Scholar so every time someone cites it, you'll get an email alert

Identify key authors in your field and follow them on Google Scholar or track changes on their websites

Identify key journals in your field (ask your professor for journals to follow) and follow them on feedly and/or Google Scholar

Do it as a table?

The Beginner Level

You are a beginner if you have just started out with your study program and what to understand research as such. You may have recently found out that journals exist and that journal ratings are a thing. On this level, you could follow:

• The journals "Nature" and "Science" are the "BILD" newspaper of science. They tend to have rather sensational titles, feature mostly short papers but also report the main news. (Now that I think about it, they are probably a bit better than BILD, but that's just on the side.)
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The Advanced Level

Eg for Machine Learning, that's: In Machine Learning, conferences also play a major role

Links & Further reading

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