How many papers do you read a week?

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Everyone needs a strategy to keep up with the literature

A year ago, I decided to keep track of all the papers I read over the course of one week. ‘Read’ here, for the most part, actually means skimmed. Although for intense papers, deep reading pays dividends, in most cases, thoroughly taking in every word leads to diminishing returns.