How does one follows research on some specific topic? Say I am interested in verification. I am constantly hitting paywalls for research papers that I have abso

How does one follows research on some specific topic? Say I am interested in verification. I am constantly hitting paywalls for research papers that I have absolutely no idea what the value is. Let's be honest, even those papers are amazing, as a self taught developer, no way i could extract every possible valuable information from it. This also means that I have no access to some university account where I could download papers "just to see what's going on" Research looks like a hermetic world and little osmosis happens with surroundings