My four-step workflow for reading scientific papers (without trying to read them all)0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• September 2, 2026

Careful use of a reference manager can help scientists to keep control of their to-read pile. Credit: Impact Photography/Shutterstock In the past 13 years, I have added 10,000 papers to the reference manager that I first used when I was a PhD student. The topics span Alzheimer’s disease, genetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, the philosophy of science