哈佛大學教授
Michael Mitzenmacher （部落格
My Biased Coin 的作者）提供一份很棒的
如何閱讀論文 (
下載電子檔) 的指引和建議，並且願意提供原稿（他是用 Latex 寫的），讓大家繼續發揚改進。Mitzenmacher 教授在他的
部落格還特別推薦
Jason Eisner 的
How to Read a Technical Paper 的最後一節
What to read
What to read
- creative web search
- experiment with several searches
- put yourself in an author's shoes; what phrases might they have used?
- become a power searcher! (read the help pages for your search engine)
- find related work
- backward references: follow the bibliography to earlier papers
- forward references: see who else has cited the work (via an interface such as Google Scholar)
- has someone else already listed the right papers for you?
- survey papers in journals (also called "review articles")
- course syllabi
- reading group webpages
- chapters in textbooks
- online tutorials
- literature review chapters from dissertations
- direct recommendations from friends or professors (perhaps at other institutions)
- breadth-first exploration
- read a lot of abstracts (and skim the papers as needed) before deciding which papers are best to read
- it's okay to read multiple related papers at once, flipping back and forth so that they clarify one another
- to get a feel for the research landscape in an area, flip through the proceedings of a relevant recent workshop, conference, or special-theme journal issue
- when the going gets tough, switch to background reading
- textbooks or tutorials
- review articles
- introductions and lit review chapters from dissertations
- early papers that are heavily cited
- sometimes Wikipedia
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