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Ask HN: How to find research on a certain topic

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For example, I would like to find research (academic or otherwise) on static analysis and structural editing of computer programs.

I have been having trouble finding a direct approach to surface pertinent publications or researchers currently focused on the topic.

So far, my best search strategies have been

(1) starting at a random university‘s computer science department site, finding groups in adjacent topics like Programming Language (PL) and/or Program Verification, and scouring for relevant publications.

(2) finding conferences where there’s a chance such topics could come up and looking at historical entries. For the topics above, I often come back to venues such as the European Lisp Symposium and Strange Loop.

I haven’t had much success searching ieee. And following a paper’s citations generally leads to past works, whereas I’m interested in what’s recent.

Is there a better way? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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jlukecarlson
If you're specifically interested in recent work then it could be worth checking out arxiv for preprints of papers in the relevant field.

For instance, here's a section on Programming Languages: https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/recent

yesenadam
No luck with Google Scholar? I'd search that and Library Genesis' scientific papers search with (various combinations of my) keywords.

https://libgen.is/

Then I'd look at the home pages/other papers of the authors of the best papers, also their co-authors.