In general where does one go to look for these types of papers, a stream of research, is that what journals are for?
You can use Google Scholar for searching if you have specific topic in your mind. Under each paper in the search results you can find two links, they are "Cited by ..." and "Related articles", you can find more papers about the topic by using these two links. The link of Google Scholar is https://scholar.google.com/ SemanticScholar is also good: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
What if I just want to learn about random shit? The main reason I read him is to learn about new things and things that might be big in 5 years.