Do you know there are about 2.5 million papers published each year? It certainly can be difficult and daunting to keep track of the relevant papers that are related to your research. You may already know about using Google Scholar or PubCrawler to keep you updated, but are you using them efficiently? I have seen many people’s weekly update with hundreds of papers because they are using very general terms. It’s understandable that you don’t want to miss anything, but you are going to spend so much time combing through them. Here are the “Ten tips to stay on top of your reading during grad school” from the publisher PLOS, including tips on how to optimize your search terms by using Boolean operators like AND and OR.
-Yulong Liu
Edited by Emily Cartwright
Suggested by Keith Fraga
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