DATE: 2021-03-10
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
I use RSS to keep up with most of the media I consume, using newsboat[1] as an RSS reader. I use it for news, blogs, podcasts, youtube. I also get email alerts from a few scientific journals on their new articles, to try and keep up with current research.
Only recently did I realise that I could use RSS to keep up with scientific journals as well. Most peer-reviewed journals have RSS feeds which list their newest articles.
I did a quick check of my master BibTeX file to see which journals I cite the most in my writing:
grep "journal = " lib.bib | sed 's/.*{\(.*\)}.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -c | sort
The top 10 journals by number of articles were, with their RSS feeds:
2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14610248#
3: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/feed/13652745/most-recent
4: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/showFeed?jc=13652486&type=etoc&feed=rss
5: http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/03781127
6: https://www.sciencemag.org/rss/weekly_news_email.xml
7: http://feeds.nature.com/ncomms/rss/current
8: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/feed/19399170/most-recent
9: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/feed/13652699/most-recent
10: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/feed/14668238/most-recent
11: http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/01681923