Honestly, I read hacker news for the noteworthy stuff. Otherwise, I ask people who are savvy in the domain what papers I should check out - a lot of the smarter people I've worked with are raving about new architectural approaches etc.
Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#42If you're in the biomedical domain, you can use: http://pubmed-watcher.org/ (shameless plug, I wrote it)
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#43I made a simple service for myself ( http://paperfeed.io ) which is a feed of all the new papers in journals I care about. I can "star" papers for reading later. Works extremely well for my habits. You're welcome to try it (not sure if the signup workflow still works; let me know). I'll be happy to hear your feedback. Edit: you can upvote papers, and they'll float to the top just like on HN.
This might be off topic but would you mind sharing how you wrote the website and if you have any tutorial that you can recommend? I want to design something extremely similar for a different application but I do not have much knowledge in web development (I am more experience in programming for numerical and data analysis). I figure this might be a good project to get my feet wet. Thanks!
Not the OP, but this looks like an nginx-powered API (which may be coming through a reverse-proxy) that returns JSON, and Bootstrap 3 + KnockoutJS for the client side to render it all. That doesn't answer your questions about the OP's thought and design processes but maybe it'll give you something to read up.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#44If you're in the biomedical domain, you can use: http://pubmed-watcher.org/ (shameless plug, I wrote it)
For pubmed searches, pubmed itself already offer email, rss notifications on newest entries. Does your site offer anything special
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does arXiv provide that your conference proceedings / association doesn't? For example, I usually log in to the ACM site and go to my SIGs and see what's new there. I've never thought about visiting arXiv.
In physics, arXiv is where it's at --- conference proceedings are usually not very relevant, and people usually put also them on arxiv.
I'd be willing to be the GP is in CS; in CS, conferences are where it's at.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#46There are a lot scientists nowadays use twitter to share, so does some prestigious journals. So if you know who are the goto guys, follow them and the journals
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#47I don't. If I'm working on something and need (or want) the latest cutting edge algorithms then I search for papers in that area as I need it. Otherwise, there's simply too much stuff going on to try reading through everything, or even a filtered down subset. Only a very small portion of it will be remotely relevant to my work or my interests.
If there's a fundamental new result in basic CS or something like that, I figure I'll hear about it on HN or another news site.
I can imagine it's different for people actively working on new research, though.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#48(1) I manually check the proceedings of the important conferences in my subfield when they come out. (2) I check my field's arXiv every other day or so. (3) Google Scholar alerts me of papers that it thinks will interest me, based on my own papers, and it's very useful. Most of what it shows me is in fact interesting for me, and it sometimes catches papers from obscure venues that I wouldn't see otherwise. The proble…
Yep, this is what I do, except that security papers don't make it to arXiv so I also keep an eye on twitter (I have followed a bunch of academic security people) and a couple subreddits (/r/ReverseEngineering, /r/REMath, and /r/systems). It's not ideal, but it works out okay.
None of them are a substitute for a proper related work search when I'm writing up a paper though, this is just to keep current on what the trends and interests of the community are.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#49As a software developer, my effectiveness doesn't depend on up-to-the-minute knowledge of what's happening in my field. It's more useful to pursue a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#50I'm using this service to get notifications from a few pages without RSS: https://urlooker.com