I use RSS to keep up with most of the media I consume, using newsboat as an RSS reader. I use it for news, blogs, podcasts, youtube. I also get email alerts from a few scientific journals on their new articles, to try and keep up with current research.
Only recently did I realise that I could use RSS to keep up with scientific journals as well. Most peer-reviewed journals have RSS feeds which list their newest articles.
I did a quick check of my master BibTeX file to see which journals I cite the most in my writing:
grep "journal = " lib.bib | sed 's/.*{\(.*\)}.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -c | sort
The top 10 journals by number of articles were, with their RSS feeds:
- 24 - Ecology Letters
- 14 - Journal of Ecology
- 14 - Global Change Biology
- 14 - Forest Ecology and Management
- 13 - Science
- 11 - Nature
- 11 - Ecology
- 9 - Journal of Biogeography
- 9 - Global Ecology and Biogeography
- 9 - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology