How the Publication Updates are compiled

In order to make it transparent, how this weekly list is compiled, here is a post on that. Mostly, it’s a couple of searches for obvious keywords plus a bit of manual browsing.

Of course, the latest and greatest research should be published on Arxiv. Freely available and open for discussion. But because there are many papers published on Arxiv every week, the compilation of the Publication Updates relies on searches on Arxiv directly:

• Search for “Microresonator” on Arxiv
• Search for “Frequency comb” on Arxiv
• Search for “Kerr soliton” on Arxiv

Beyond Arxiv, in the past most of the papers relevant to the field of Kerr frequency combs have been published in OSA journals, and here in particular Optics Letters, Optics Express and Optica. Therefore, the most recent articles in these journals are skimmed over manually:

• Issue in progress Optica
• Issue in progress Optics Express
• Issue in progress Optics Letters

These lists can be fairly long but sometimes one finds papers which are also of interest despite not featuring Kerr frequency combs. However, OSA publishes many more journals. So, back to the search function. Just make sure to manually select “Sort by: Newest first” for each link:

• Search for “Microresonator” at OSA
• Search for “Frequency comb” at OSA
• Search for “Soliton” at OSA

Of course, the OSA is not the only relevant society for scientists in optics. There is also the APS with their journals. So, let’s head over there and search there as well. Advantage there: no need to adapt the sorting every time:

• Search for “Microresonator” at APS
• Search for “Frequency comb” at APS
• Search for “Kerr soliton” at APS

Usually, most new publicaations are now identified but of course some high-impact journals are missing. At the Nature Publishing Group we repeat the same searches again:

• Search for “Microresonator” at NPG
• Search for “Frequency comb” at NPG
• Search for “Soliton” at NPG

And the same at AAAS:

• Search for “Microresonator” at AAAS
• Search for “Frequency comb” at AAAS
• Search for “Soliton” at AAAS

Most of the new articles are found by now. But there are in principle many more journals where work on Kerr frequency combs could have been published. It would be too much work to search at every publishers webpage so we resort to Google Scholar. Here we also search for less common keywords:

• Search for “Microresonator” at Google Scholar
• Search for “Frequency comb” at Google Scholar
• Search for “Kerr soliton” at Google Scholar
• Search for “Microcomb” at Google Scholar

Why not searching only Google Scholar? Because it is not always fully up-to-date.

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