research-watch

Research Watch

Stay current without drowning in papers.

Set up intelligent monitoring for research topics, authors, venues, or keywords. Get notified when relevant new work appears, with automatic relevance scoring and synthesis.

"The literature moves fast. Your knowledge should move faster." — Anonymous Researcher

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1. Watch Types

1.1 Topic Watch

Monitor a research topic for new papers:

Topic: "mechanistic interpretability"
Keywords: ["mechanistic interpretability", "circuit tracing", "activation patching"]
Venues: [NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, arXiv cs.LG]
Frequency: weekly

Relevance scoring:

Score	Criteria	Action
90-100	Directly addresses your research question	Read immediately
70-89	Related method or application	Read within 2 days
50-69	Same field, tangential topic	Skim abstract
< 50	Same broad area	Skip, but log for completeness

1.2 Author Watch

Track specific researchers:

Authors: ["Yann LeCun", "Yoshua Bengio", "Geoffrey Hinton"]
Rationale: "Foundational figures in deep learning"
Alert on: new papers, preprints, blog posts

1.3 Venue Watch

Monitor specific conferences/journals:

Venues: ["NeurIPS", "ICML", "ICLR", "JMLR"]
Filter: papers matching [your keywords]
Alert: when proceedings published

1.4 Citation Watch

Track who cites your work or key papers:

Target papers: [your-paper-id, foundational-paper-id]
Alert on: new citations
Include: citation context (how they cite you)

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2. Setup Protocol

Step 1 — Define Watch Scope

Watch Name: [descriptive name]
Type: [topic / author / venue / citation]
Query: [keywords, authors, or paper IDs]
Sources: [arXiv / Semantic Scholar / Google Scholar / PubMed]
Frequency: [daily / weekly / monthly]

Step 2 — Configure Filters

Exclude noise:

• Negative keywords: ["survey", "review", "tutorial"] (if you want only original research)
• Minimum citations: [0 for new work, 10 for established work]
• Date range: [last 30 days / last 90 days / all time]