/Research-Paper-Reading-Template

A markdown template for taking notes to summarize research papers.

[Title]

Quick Look

Authors & Affiliation: [Authors] [Affiliations]

Link : [Paper link]

Comments: [e.g. Published at X / arXiv paper/ in review.]

TLDR: [One or at most two line summary.]

Relevance: [Score between 1 and 5, stating how relevant this paper is to your work. Usually filled in at the end. ]

Research Topic

  • Category (General) :
  • Category (Specific) :

Paper summary (What)

[Summary of the paper - a few sentences with bullet points. What did they do?]

Issues addressed by the paper (Why)

[What are the issues that the paper addresses? Describe the problem. Why did they write this paper?]

Detailed Information (How)

Methodology

[How did they approach the problem. What methods did they use? ]

Assumptions

[What assumptions were made and are these assumptions valid?]

Prominent Formulas

[Can be empty]

Prominent Figures

[Can be empty]

Results

[Theoretical or empirical results (any main tables) ]

Limitations

[Did the authors mention any limitations to their work? Do you see any limitations of their work?]

Confusing aspects of the paper

[Is there anything that is confusing and could need better explanations or references?]

Conclusions

The author's conclusions

[What are the authors conclusion? What do they claim about their results.]

My Conclusion

[What do you think about the work presented in the article? Did the authors manage to achieve what they set out to achieve?]

Rating

[Fine, Good, Great, Wow, Turing Award ]

Possible future work / improvements

[Can you think of ways to improve this paper or ideas for future work?]

Extra

  • Cited references to follow up on / related papers:
  • Source code/ blog/ twitter thread/ other links:

References