{"id":415,"date":"2008-10-27T02:29:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T02:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/10\/27\/too_many_fish_in_the_sea\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T02:29:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T02:29:04","slug":"too_many_fish_in_the_sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/10\/27\/too_many_fish_in_the_sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many fish in the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, and highly scientific (_Riiight\u2014Ed._) poll.<\/p>\n<p>\nDoes anyone actually <em>read<\/em> journals for research articles anymore? I don&#8217;t mean does anyone read articles (I hope you do before you cite them&#8230;), but do people take each new issue of a journal (online or dead tree) and read through the table of contents? Do people read email ToCs? What about RSS feeds of ToCs?<\/p>\n<p>\nOr do people just run PubMed searches (or Google Scholar) on their favourite keywords once a week\/month\/whatever? Or a mixture of the two?<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd a related question: If you keep up to date with ToCs at least, <em>for how many journals<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m genuinely curious. The question is inspired by the hundreds of articles  published weekly in JBC and PLoS 1. A further question would be <em>Is there a disciplinary divide in keeping up to date with the literature?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, and highly scientific (_Riiight\u2014Ed._) poll. Does anyone actually read journals for research articles anymore? I don&#8217;t mean does anyone read articles (I hope you do before you cite them&#8230;), but do people take each new issue of a journal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/10\/27\/too_many_fish_in_the_sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}