Recently, I posted about my commitment to read one academic article per day. It’s now been just over a month that I’ve been doing this, and I have to say, it has been transformative. I feel a whole new level of engagement with my work and my discipline.

This has also prompted me to read newer articles than I had previously. Having amassed >50 journals’ feeds in my RSS reader has helped. This means that when I open my reader there is always a bunch of new stuff to pick from. This has been important for ideation, recency, and fostering an interesting breadth of topics.

Anyhow, yesterday I wrote some Python scripts to quantify the daily articles I’ve been reading (most common journals, most frequent keywords in titles, for example), and I’ll share some results once I’ve amassed a few more months of data; the limited quantity of data so far means that it is not yet super meaningful.

Nonetheless, my takeaway from this exercise has been unambiguous: reading one academic article per day is an excellent thing to do. Highly recommend.

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