https://jameshaytonphd.com/60-60 Yesterday, I talked about starting with the most influential papers in your field. Obviously, you have to then go beyond that and read a lot of the less influential papers too. The mistake people often make is to treat this as a linear process like a production line; read a paper once, take notes, move on. But it is an iterative process, where you have to read some papers several times throughout your PhD.