Everyone knows that the number of publications is growing every year, this is especially noticeable in biology. I'm wondering how other cope with this volume. Is it possible to scale up reading articles?
In my opinion (professional mathematician), one shouldn't try to scale up.<p>A generation ago, there were a hundred times as many articles as anyone could read. Now, there are a thousand times as many. (In 2018, there were 33,486 mathematics papers published to the arXiv. [1])<p>I believe that the best strategy remains the same: simply pick what you do want to read, and read it.<p>[1] <a href="https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2018_by_area" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2018_by_area</a>
Maybe it's curating that ought to be scaled. Most articles are a crappy product of a system where quantitative indicators are set, but qualitative indicators are forgotten.
Skim, do not read... if the work seems relevant to your interests and the best practices are followed, have a look at the conclusions. If still interested, have a look at the paper credentials, if it is peer-reviewed, from reliable publisher, etc. Pretty any good researcher out there has been peer-reviewed at least once in his career, be it a conference or a journal, so you can safely ignore vanity press, complete outliers and fully independent proponents.