A cou­ple of weeks ago, Google scholar added a facil­ity to pro­vide email alerts on new arti­cles asso­ci­ated with spe­cific search queries. First do the search, then click the enve­lope at top left of screen. For exam­ple, here is a search on “expo­nen­tial smooth­ing” since 2000.

Note the enve­lope at the top marked New! Click it to get the fol­low­ing screen.

Those results show some of the flaws in Google Scholar — the dates are not always cor­rect (the first paper listed above appeared in 2004) and there are unre­solved duplicates.

Despite the prob­lems, if you’re want­ing to keep an eye out for new papers on par­tic­u­lar top­ics, this looks like it could be use­ful. Unfor­tu­nately, there is no RSS feed avail­able.

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