[jarvist]

The issue that I find with Google scholar is that it seems very biased by my publications. So it's very good at telling me the latest work related to what I used to work on, but not necessarily what I am currently interested in.

[btrettel]

I think you're referring to a different Google Scholar feature than what I was referring to.

Google Scholar will periodically email me a researcher their AI thinks does work similar to me. For the most part this is close but not quite right. It sounds to me like this is what you're referring to.

I set up manual Google Scholar alerts for citations to papers of interest to me and some particular search queries. Many of these are unrelated to anything I have published, and they don't depend at all on my publications. I've heard of many interesting papers through these alerts.

[jean_valje4n]

I recommend searching for stuff in google scholar, taking into account how many citations a paper has had by other papers. This isn't foolproof, but one can read a lot of interesting primary literature that way.

Also look for review articles that summarize the studies of multiple primary literature. Review articles are amazing in that they can sum up a lot of different ideas with citations to the primary work of others.