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Where do researchers find their resources?
I'm not talking about journals or whatever, like how do they find specific papers.
Normally, I just type in keywords and find ones that I could use, but some researchers use the most obscure citations that you wouldn't even think of. Where do they find these things from?
Like a specific page on a book that has nothing do with the subject except for that tiny excerpt.

And how are they so sure that no one else has done their research before?

>> No.10688708

what's her at?

>> No.10688790

>>10688654
Scirate
Lots of a talking and sharing of literature with colleagues and people you meet at conferences
Following big names in your field
And most importantly: actually reading the landmark papers in your field/subfield and following the relevant citations, both forwards and backwards

Of course the actual answer to your question of "how" is simply: they've been working at the cutting edge of the field for the past X decades and they know the literature inside and out

>> No.10688814

>>10688654
Scihub, google scholar for the popular / canonical stuff, and lots of word of mouth. Usually your advisor gives you a lot of good resources and names to look up. Scirate is also very good for this, as it’s hard to curate what arxiv papers you need to read just based on title alone

>> No.10689387

>>10688654
People always underestimate the importance of having great memory, or they think it's only good for "softer" fields.

>> No.10689392

>>10688654
Google scholar.
Also google book preview often will have links to specific pages that come up in searches.

Normally what happens is whenever you are looking at a paper, you do two things. First you click on cite and add it into your citation software (bibtext, or whatever) then when you're done you click on 'cited by' and see all the other papers that depend on findings in what you're reading. Then you follow that rabbit hole.

>> No.10689399

>>10688654
>And how are they so sure that no one else has done their research before?

For math there's tools for this, like oeis to see if whatever integer sequence is already known https://oeis.org/ should you find some miraculous finding and later discover there's a paper on it already. Also people can do same research, lot's of survey papers around that describe the current state of whatever subject

>> No.10689905

>>10688654
I want to sex that thing

>> No.10689926

I know the reason why you posted this thread

>> No.10689932

>>10688654
Where did you find that picture?

>> No.10689972

>>10688654
You read the sources your sources sourced and so on and so forth.