Go to the author's/university/lab website. You will usually find a pre-publication version or a closely related paper, months to years ahead of the actual publ

Go to the author's/university/lab website. You will usually find a pre-publication version or a closely related paper, months to years ahead of the actual publication. Some of the stuff you find isnt very good (too narrow, for example) but the signal to noise ratio is better than scanning lot of blogs.