1. 为什么要阅读paper?
虽然现在有很多传播知识的方式，如代码、博客、twitter等，但学术论文依然是向世界传播新知识的主要方式。学术论文是黄金标准(gold standard)，报告了绝大多数的科学发现。
• Health magazines: In the health sciences there is a similar set of journals like the New England
Journal of Medicine¹⁸⁹ and the Journal of the American Medical Association¹⁹⁰. They have the
same benefits and caveats as the Science magazines, but with a more health flavored bent.
• Mega journals: Journals like PLoS One¹⁹¹ and Peerj¹⁹² also publish in a wide range of areas
and a ton of papers. The review criteria here is that it must be “correct” but not necessarily
a “breathrough”. So the heterogeneity in the papers is high. If a paper seems too good to be
true, again it is worth taking with a grain of salt.
• Field-specific Scientific journals: Most scientific journals are not megajournals or magazines. These journals tend to be very field specific and tend to be much heavier on the details.
This is where most science is published. The papers tend to be less focused on “breakthroughs”
but are also less consistently risky to trust in these journals. In my area the journals might be something like Biostatistics¹⁹³ or Biometrics¹⁹⁴.
根据你的兴趣来选择paper，下面是不同类型的期刊：
- 科学杂志，如Nature(http://www.nature.com/index.html)、PNAS(https://www.pnas.org/)、Science(http://www.sciencemag.org/)，面向的主要对象是一般（非特定领域）读者，发布的是具有重大突破的内容。该类论文相比于专业期刊来说，专业术语和数学公式会少一些，所以更适合特定领域的门外汉阅读。这也意味着很多非常重要的论文都会在这些期刊上发表。但可能存在的问题是，作者为了凸显工作属于重大突破的范围，就会拼命的解释数据（甚至伪造数据），部分论文就会被撤回。所以最好阅读比较有营养的论文。