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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by mtw on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:32PM (#13278613)
I don't know about CompSci research. However I do http://outcomereference.com/ which is just a side-project and read about 2-3 medical research papers everyday and the biggest challenge is open access to papers. It is possible to find the PDFs on various research sites but the vast majority is costly (avg $40 per paper). Not sure if there is free & open access for CompSci research?
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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by Mathnerd314 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:40PM (#13278676)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by imranq on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:05PM (#13278842)
I like the idea of scientifically vetting foods, but as you said it might be hard coming up with a balanced viewpoint if you are not considering all the research. Also might be helpful to consider the impact factor of each paper you are citing.
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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by matt4077 on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:57AM (#13283188)
Let me get my smart-ass instinct out of the way first: journals have impact factors, not papers :)

But it doesn't really matter because it's a somewhat-empty vanity-metric anyway. For assessing clinical trials (and aggregating their results) the Cochrane collaboration is probably the gold standard. Here's something I found on their method to evaluate trial quality: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5928

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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by nl on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:37AM (#13282755)
In CompSci it's pretty rare for there not to be open access versions of a major paper. Off the top of my head there have been a few in Nature but outside that almost everything ends up as open access.
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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by fanf2 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:08PM (#13281026)
A lot of CS papers are available on http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
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